Usually means: Pressed closely against; lying flat.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word appressed:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. appressed: Merriam-Webster
  2. appressed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. appressed: Collins English Dictionary
  4. appressed: Vocabulary.com
  5. appressed: Wordnik
  6. appressed: Wiktionary
  7. appressed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. appressed: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Appressed, appressed: Dictionary.com
  10. Appressed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Appressed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. appressed: Rhymezone
  13. Appressed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. appressed: FreeDictionary.org
  15. appressed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. appressed: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. appressed: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appressed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (appressed)

▸ adjective:  (biology, mycology) Closely flattened down.

Similar:
close, adpressed, appressed-fibrillose, appressed-squamulose, appressed-fibrillose-striate, crustose, appressorial, explanate, peronate, inflected, more...

Opposite:
upright, erect, standing

Types:
squashed, flattened, compressed, crushed, pushed together, more...

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Similar:
close, adpressed, appressed-fibrillose, appressed-squamulose, appressed-fibrillose-striate, crustose, appressorial, explanate, peronate, inflected, more...

Opposite:
upright, erect, standing

Types:
squashed, flattened, compressed, crushed, pushed together, more...



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