Decurrent vs Recurrent - What's the difference?
decurrent | recurrent |
(botany) Pertaining to plant parts that extend downward, most often applied to leaf blades that partly wrap or have wings around the stem or petiole and extend down along the stem.
(mycology) Pertaining to lamellae (the gills of a mushroom) that are broadly attached and extend down the stipe of the mushroom.
(obsolete) running or extending downwards.
Recurring time after time.
(mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
Running back toward its origin.
As adjectives the difference between decurrent and recurrent
is that decurrent is (botany) pertaining to plant parts that extend downward, most often applied to leaf blades that partly wrap or have wings around the stem or petiole and extend down along the stem while recurrent is recurrent; recurring.decurrent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is decurrent .
References
* Chambers's Etymological Dictionary , 1896, p. 114 ----recurrent
English
Adjective
(wikipedia recurrent) (-)- The patient complained of recurrent chest pain.
- a recurrent nerve or artery