Extrorse: Definition and part of speech

Extrorse

  1. a. Facing outwards, or away from the axis of growth; — said esp. of anthers occupying the outer side of the filament.

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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