Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EQ'UI-TANT
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EQ'UI-TANT, a. [L. equitans, equito, to ride, from eques, a horseman, or equus, a horse.]
In botany, such a situation of unexpanded leaves in a leaf bud, that they overlap each other entirely, and in a parallel manner, without any involution.
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