percurrent

percurrent
/peuhr kerr"euhnt, -kur"-/, adj. Bot.
extending through the entire length, as a midrib through a leaf.
[1570-80; < L percurrent- (s. of percurrens), prp. of percurrere to run through. See PER-, CURRENT]

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