Definition of Porrect

1. a. Extended horizontally; stretched out.

Definition of Porrect

1. Adjective. stretched (out or forward) ¹

2. Verb. To stretch out or forward ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Porrect

1. extended forward [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Porrect

porphyroblast
porphyroblasts
porphyrogenitism
porphyrogeniture
porphyropsin
porphyropsins
porphyry
porpoise
porpoise oil
porpoised
porpoises
porpoising
porpus
porpuses
porraceous
porrect (current term)
porrected
porrecting
porrection
porrections
porrects
porret
porrets
porridge
porridgelike
porridges
porridgey
porridgy
porrigo
porrigos

Literary usage of Porrect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of ...by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"Flower-stalk up to one span high, erect or porrect, strong, greenish white, with three to four generally blunt distant ..."

2. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by Sir William Jackson Hooker, James Sowerby, William Borrer, John William Salter (1849)
"... its centre prominent, «ides at first folded in, afterwards porrect or slightly patent; lower lip of 3 roundish obtuse rather unequal lobes, ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"... much stouter and longer, the three upper ones erect or divergent, the lowest (usually the longest and somewhat flattened), porrect or deflexed, ..."

4. The Tourist's Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and by Joseph Woods (1850)
"Fl. and Stam. porrect. R. creeping. p., 7. Moût meadows and banks. ß. nigricans, ... Stam. porrect. p. 7, 8. Sandy shores of the Adda. ..."

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