decurrent


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
decurrent /dɪˈkʌr(ə)nt/
adjective Botany extending down the stem below the point of attachment.

■ (of a tree) having several roughly equal branches.

– origin C18: from L. decurrent-, decurrere ‘to run down’.
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