Search Result for "appressed": 
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. pressed close to or lying flat against something;
- Example: "adpressed hairs along the plant's stem"
- Example: "igneous rocks...closely appressed by this force"-L.V.Pirsson
[syn: appressed, adpressed]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Appressed \Ap*pressed"\, Apprest \Ap*prest"\, a. [p. p. appress,
   which is not in use. See Adpress.] (Bot.)
   Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole
   length, as against a stem. --Gray.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

appressed
    adj 1: pressed close to or lying flat against something;
           "adpressed hairs along the plant's stem"; "igneous
           rocks...closely appressed by this force"-L.V.Pirsson
           [syn: appressed, adpressed]