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Webster 1913 Edition

Amphitropous

{

Am-phit′ro-pal

(-pal)

,

Am-phit′ro-pous

(-pŭs)

, }

Adj.

[Gr.

ἀμφί

+

τρέπειν

to turn.]

(Bot.)

Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.