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 thechalaza and theorifice ; amphitropous.
Etymologies
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See hemitrope.
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