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accrescent

Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɛsənt/

The English word “accrescent” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Growing; increasing.
  2. Which keeps growing past the point it normally would stop and begin wilting.

Etymology

From Latin accrescens, accrescentis, present participle of accrescere, from ad + crescere (“to grow”).

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