innovant

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English

Etymology

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Adjective

innovant (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Growing out of older branches rather than from the main stem.
    • 1884, Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Volume 15, page 71:
      These all agree with typical Thysananthus in habit, rooting flagella, lingulate leaves, repeatedly and closely innovant inflorescence, and trigonous perianths; and only differ in the entire underleaves and perianths.
    • 1894, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Handbook of British Hepaticae, page 158:
      Secondary less rigid, paler brown, ascending, simple or dichotomous, innovant in older plants.
    • 1918, William Henry Pearson, “Notes on a Collection of Hepatics from the Cameroons, West Coast of Africa”, in Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, page 4:
      Stems irregularly pinnate, alternate, 2 to 3 cells wide, innovant branch arising from base of perianth, sometimes long and again innovant, rarely two innovant branches.

Catalan

Verb

innovant

  1. gerund of innovar

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.nɔ.vɑ̃/
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Adjective

innovant (feminine innovante, masculine plural innovants, feminine plural innovantes)

  1. innovative

Participle

innovant

  1. present participle of innover

Further reading

Latin

Verb

innovant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of innovō