excurrent

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excurrent

red spruce tree (Elizabeth Morales)

1. 1. Running or flowing in an outward direction.
   2. Marked by an outward flow of current.
2. Botany.
   1. Having a single, undivided trunk with lateral branches, as in spruce trees.
   2. Extending beyond the apex of a leaf, as a midrib or vein.

[Latin excurrēns, excurrent-, present participle of excurrere, to run out. See excursion.]