Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Turned half round; half-inverted: specifically applied in botany to an ovule in which the axis of the nucleus is more curved than in an anatropous ovule. Also hemitropal.

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  • adjective Turned half round; half inverted.
  • adjective botany, of an ovule Having the raphe terminating about halfway between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous.

Etymologies

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See hemitrope.

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