premorse
/ˌpriːˈmɔːs/Chiefly Botany
adjective
Especially of a root: having the end irregularly truncate, as if bitten or broken off.
Origin
Mid 18th century; earliest use found in Chambers's Cyclopaedia. From classical Latin praemorsus, past participle of praemordēre to bite at the extremity, to bite from the end from prae- + mordēre to bite.
- overshot
- overside
- oversight
- oversight committee
- oversighting
- a brick short of a load
- a brick short of a load (or two sandwiches short of a picnic, etc.)
- abricotine
- abridge
- abridgeable
- abridgedly
- abridgement
- abridger
- a bridge too far
- abridgment
- abrim
- abrin
- abristle
- abroad
- abrogable
- abrogate
- abrogation
- abrogative
- abrogator
- a broken reed