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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Facing inward; turned toward the axis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Turned or facing inward: an epithet used in describing the direction of bodies, to denote their being turned toward the axis to which they appertain. In botany it is applied to anthers when their valves are turned toward the style.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Turning or facing inward, or toward the axis of the part to which it belongs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Facing or turned inwards or towards an axis.
  • adjective botany Said of anthers dehiscing toward the center of the flower.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin intrōrsus, contraction of intrōversus, inward : intrō-, to the inside; see en in Indo-European roots + versus, past participle of vertere, to turn; see wer- in Indo-European roots.]

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