hemitropous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See hemitrope.
Adjective
[edit]hemitropous (comparative more hemitropous, superlative most hemitropous)
- Turned half round; half inverted.
- (botany, of an ovule) Having the raphe terminating about halfway between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous[1]
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “[Glossary […].] Hemitropous.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, […], New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC.
- “hemitropous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.