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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Biology Directed forward and upward, as the hairs on certain plant stems.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany and zoology, bent or directed forward or upward: especially, in ornithology, applied to the bristly feathers which fill the nasal fossæ of such birds as crows and jays.
  2. In ichthyology, turned forward: said of spines.

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  1. adj. biology curved forward and upward

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Forward or upward in direction.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. bent or curved forward or upward

Etymologies

  1. New Latin antrōrsum, from Latin anterior, before (perhaps after intrōrsum, inwards, from interior, inside); see anterior. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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