Grown or accumulated through accretion; built up layer by layer.
Past tense and past participle of accrete. Adjective form describing something that has undergone the process of accretion.
Geologists use 'accreted terranes' to describe pieces of Earth's crust that stuck to continents from across the ocean—the Appalachian Mountains are partly made of African rock that accreted 300 million years ago.
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