Anatropous: Definition and part of speech

Anatropous

  1. a. Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; — opposed to orthotropous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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