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English
Etymology
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Adjective
innovant (not comparable)
- (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
- gerund of innovar
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
innovant (feminine innovante, masculine plural innovants, feminine plural innovantes)
- innovative
Participle
innovant
- present participle of innover
Further reading
Latin
Verb
innovant
- third-person plural present active indicative of innovō