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What does excurrent mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Of a vein or costa, extending beyond the tip or the margin of a leaf.
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That is, sperm are created, concentrated and sent out the excurrent openings, sometimes in masses so dense that the sponges appear to be smoking.
Trabs rise upward parallel to or slightly oblique to excurrent canals and form regular ladder-like structure.
The opercular is more often made up of one or more immobile bones which channel the excurrent from gills with individual covers.
Very similar structures, observed on living sponges of the genus Astrosclera, represent excurrent canal systems.
Most conifers and a few hardwoods, such as sweetgum and tuliptree, have excurrent forms.
Colonies with greater than 12 individuals across, may have fixed water excurrent chimneys reflected in the skeleton.

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