adjective

• Lying closely against the adjacent part, or against the ground.

  ‘the cap is covered with fine, white, adpressed scales’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The cone specimens are mostly compressed or adpressed in preservation but their carbonized remains contain ribbed pollen.’
  • ‘The sharp angle between the blade and the basal facet suggests that, like the palmate sclerites of H. evangelista, they were adpressed to the body surface.’
  • ‘They also bear prominent ribs and are tightly adpressed to the body, but are larger than the palmate sclerites.’