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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as anatropous.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany anatropous
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to
orthotropous .
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“It is a shame to trouble [you], but will you tell me whether the ovule of Primula is "anatropal," nearly as figured by Gray, page 123, "Lessons in Botany," or rather more tending to "amphitropal"?”
“In other cases, a simple arrest of development takes place; the ovule, for instance, which should be anatropal, remains straight, while the integuments, checked in their development, form imperfect sheaths from which the shrivelled nucleus protrudes.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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