(transitive) To press close to.

simple past tense and past participle of appress

(biology, mycology) Closely flattened down.

present participle of appress

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appress

(mycology) Having squamules that lie flat.

(biology, mycology) Describes appressed fibrils which are silky in texture.

(biology, mycology) Having fibrils that lie flat.

(mycology, rare) Having appressed fibrils in the form of radiating lines (used to describe the surface of the stem or cap of a mushroom).

(mycology) A bulbous formation produced by parasitic fungi that is well attached to the cuticle of the host and from where a peg-shaped hypha is formed that penetrates the cuticle.