antrorse

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

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  1. New Latin antrōrsum, from Latin anterior, before (perhaps after intrōrsum, inwards, from interior, inside); see anterior.

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  1. from New Latin antrorsus, from Latin antero- (apparently base of anterior, from ante, before) + versus, turned, from vertere, turn. Cf. introrse, retrorse, etc.
 

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