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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| accrescent |
| SYLLABICATION: | ac·cres·cent |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -kr s nt |
| ADJECTIVE: | Increasing in size after flowering, as the calyx of the ground cherry. |
| ETYMOLOGY: | Latin accr scns, accrscent-, present participle of accrscere, to grow. See accrue.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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