amphitropal

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, both) + τροπή (tropḗ, turn) + -al.

Adjective[edit]

amphitropal (comparative more amphitropal, superlative most amphitropal)

  1. (botany) Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for amphitropal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)