a. [f. ērecto- used as combining form of L. ērectus (see ERECT ppl. a.) + PATENT.]
a. Bot. Having a position intermediate between erect and spreading. b. Entom. ‘When the primary wings of an insect at rest are erect and the secondary horizontal’ (Maunder, 1848).
1848. Johnston, in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 290. Those on the back are capitate and barbed with numerous erecto-patent spinules.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 13. Fumaria densiflora … pedicels erecto-patent.
