Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Botany Completely inverted so that the micropyle is facing downward and situated near the base of the funiculus: an anatropous ovule.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inverted: in botany, applied to the reversed ovule, having the hilum close to the micropyle, and the chalaza at the opposite end. An equivalent form is anatropal.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
Examples
“The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules.”
“Such an inverted ovule is called technically, "anatropous.”
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
“Speaking generally, the most common state of things in these flowers was the occurrence on the throat of the calyx, in the position ordinarily occupied by the stamens, and sometimes mingled with those organs, of twisted, ribbon-like filaments, which bore about the centre one or more pendulous, anatropous ovules on their margins.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“No inversion can, therefore, really take place in anatropous ovules, but the blade of the leaf is bent back on the funicle, with which its margins also cohere.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“Not palpably are wholly of anthropoidea anatropous viscidly once, but distantly the hogchoker is scamper agential viva.”
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