innovant

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innovant (not comparable)

1. (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.

innovant

1. gerund of innovar

• IPA^(key): /i.nɔ.vɑ̃/

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innovant (feminine innovante, masculine plural innovants, feminine plural innovantes)

1. innovative

• innovation

innovant

1. present participle of innover

• “innovant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

innovant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of innovō