adpress

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word adpress. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word adpress, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say adpress in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word adpress you have here. The definition of the word adpress will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofadpress, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

An adaptation of adpress-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adprimō, variant spelling of apprimō.

Verb

adpress (third-person singular simple present adpresses, present participle adpressing, simple past and past participle adpressed)

  1. Alternative form of appress
    • 1994, Milan Chvála, The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark:
      Hind tibiae bristled above, about 8 bristles in antero- and posterodorsal rows nearly as long as tibia is deep, intermixed with shorter hairing, ventrally with short adpressed bristly-hairs.

References

Anagrams