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from The Century Dictionary.
- Running or lying in different directions, as leaves on the stem and branches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having spirals of changing direction.
- adjective (Mech.) Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of
levers , in which thepower andweight move inopposite directions - adjective botany Spiralling in opposite
directions on astem orbranch
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