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excurrent
red spruce tree 		ex·cur·rent  audio  (k-skūrnt, -skr-) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
    1. Running or flowing in an outward direction.
    2. Marked by an outward flow of current.
  2. Botany
    1. Having a single, undivided trunk with lateral branches, as in spruce trees.
    2. Extending beyond the apex of a leaf, as a midrib or vein.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin excurrns, excurrent- present participle of excurrere, to run out ; see excursion



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