(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:36:58

Ac*cres"cent (#), a. [L. accrescens, -entis, p. pr. of accrescere; ad + crescere to grow. See Crescent.]

1.

Growing; increasing.

Shuckford.

2. Bot.

Growing larger after flowering.

Gray.

 

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