incubous

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋ.kjʊ.bəs/, /ˈɪn.kjə.bəs/
• Homophone: incubus

incubous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Describing an arrangement of leaves such that distal (anterior) parts of older leaves overlap the proximal (posterior) parts of younger ones.
   • 1966 October, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, “Morphology of the Vegetative Organs”, in 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:

     If the apical cell is slightly postically displaced, an incubous orientation of the leaf rudiments ensues […]

• (antonym(s) of “of leaves”): succubous

• incubously

• incubus

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