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Webster 1913 Edition


Antitropous

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An-tit′ro-pal

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An-tit′ro-pous

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Adj.
[Pref.
anti-
+ Gr. [GREEK] turn, [GREEK] to turn.]
(Bot.)
At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.
Lindley.