Centrifugal

1. n. A centrifugal machine.
2. a. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
3. a. Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
4. a. Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

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.