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Adjective: excurrent  ek'skur-unt or ek'skú-runt [N. Amer], ek'skú-runt [Brit]
  1. (biology) directed or flowing outward; having a projecting tip or central axis
    "Pine trees have an excurrent growth pattern with a single dominant trunk"; "The excurrent ducts carry water out of the sponge"