succubous
adjUK, US /ˈsʌk.jʊ.bəs/
1
Biology, Botany, Natural sciences Describing an arrangement of leaves such that proximal (posterior) parts of older leaves overlap the distal (anterior) parts of younger ones.
- If the apical cell is slightly antically displaced, a succubous orientation of the leaf rudiments results […]1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume I, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 482:
- Antonyms
- incubous
- Derived terms
- succubously
- Related terms
- succubus