lowermost

adjectiveC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Lowermost means lowest of all. The lowermost branch, the lowermost shelf.

It is a superlative built the same way as uppermost and innermost, and English makes very few of them now. It is formal and belongs to description rather than to instructions.

Definitions of lowermost

1adjectivelowermostLowest of all.C1
“The lowermost branches had been cut back to head height.”

lowermost is a position.

Where it comes from

From lower + -most.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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lowermost in the wild

The lowermost is secured at the corners by a crossjack.
Bilander
The protected segments, including the headwaters, an unnamed tributary from Porcupine Lake, and all but the lowermost part of the main stem, lie within the wildlife refuge.
Ivishak River
In grasses, two bracts known as "glumes" form the lowermost organs of a spikelet (there are usually two but one is sometimes reduced; or rarely, both are absent).
Glume
In the geologic timescale, the Asselian is the earliest geochronologic age or lowermost chronostratigraphic stage of the Permian.
Asselian
The lowermost section of Redwood Creek was Yurok territory.
Whilkut

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