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simple past and past participle of appress examples
comparative more appressed, superlative most appressed
(biology, mycology) Closely flattened down. quotations
During the night the upper or smoother surfaces of the leaves are appressed together, this would seem to shew that the office of this surface of the leaf was to expose the fluids of the plant to the light as well as to the air.
1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 25