ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Pressed close to, lying flat against, as the hairs on the stems of some plants, etc.
1828. Kirby & Spence, Entom., II. xix. 124. The dorsal segments are covered with shining adpressed hairs.
1876. Harley, Mat. Med., 412. Twigs, densely covered with minute, imbricated, adpressed leaves.
