Usage examples (11)

• adpressed hairs along the plant's stem
• The branches and branchlets are tense and straight, crowded, adpressed and acute.
• The joints are 2 in. long and 1 in. in diameter, cylindrical, with adpressed tubercles, ½ in. or more long, each tubercle bearing a tuft of long, straight, radiating spines.
• The tap, tap, tap of the bill as it cuts into the wood serves to guide the observer to the spot where the woodpecker, with legs apart and tail adpressed to the tree, is...