Webster's Online Dictionary
with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation

 
Earth's largest dictionary with more than 1226 modern languages and Eve!

Definition: INCUBOUS

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb incubously.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(incubously)		 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective incubous.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

 Top

Date "Incubous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Incubous \In"cu*bous\, adjective. [From Latin incubare to lie on.]. (references)


Extended Definition: INCUBOUS

Incubous

The term incubous is used to describe the way in which the leaves of a leafy liverwort are attached to the stem. If you were to look down from above (dorsal side) on a liverwort where the leaf attachment is incubous, the upper edge of each leaf would overlap the next higher leaf along the stem. Because of this, the upper edge of each leaf is visible from above, but the lower edge of each leaf is obscured by its neighboring leaf. The opposite of incubous is succubous.


Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Incubous". Image Credit.
 bookmark   email   print   tweet   facebook  



Topics by Level of Interest: INCUBOUS

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Incubous 2     Incubous 2

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).