Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
amphitropous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the
ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; halfanatropous .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphi, "both") + τροπή (tropē, "turn") + -al.
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Examples
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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"?
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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