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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. pressed close to or lying flat against something;
- Example: "adpressed hairs along the plant's stem"
- Example: "igneous rocks...closely appressed by this force"-L.V.Pirsson
[syn: appressed, adpressed]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Appressed \Ap*pressed"\, Apprest \Ap*prest"\, a. [p. p. appress, which is not in use. See Adpress.] (Bot.) Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

appressed adj 1: pressed close to or lying flat against something; "adpressed hairs along the plant's stem"; "igneous rocks...closely appressed by this force"-L.V.Pirsson [syn: appressed, adpressed]