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Definition of Campylotropous
1. Adjective. (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk.
Definition of Campylotropous
1. a. Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together.
Definition of Campylotropous
1. Adjective. (botany) Having the ovules and seeds so curved, or bent down upon themselves, that the ends of the embryo are brought close together. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Campylotropous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Campylotropous
1. Of an ovule, orientated transversely, i.e. With its axis at right angles to its stalk, and with a curved embryo sac. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Campylotropous
Literary usage of Campylotropous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Fruit a pulpy or rarely dry 1-celled berry, with numerous campylotropous
seeds (without or with some albumen) on several parietal placenta;. ..."
2. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Placentae adnate to the partition and projecting into the colls. Seeds campylotropous
or ... campylotropous ..."
3. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"These are the orthotropous, campylotropous, and anatropous, and the modification
called half-anatropous, ..."
4. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"Ovaries 4 (rarely only one), with an ascending campylotropous ovule : stigma
sessile or on a short style. Fruit drupe-like when fresh, ..."
5. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"campylotropous (Fig. u8;5, ">8('>) is the name of the ovule which in the course
of its growth is curved on itself so as to bring the orifice or true apex ..."
6. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"Ovary inferior, slightly convex and villous on the top ; ovules 8 to 10 in each
cell, campylotropous, attached in two rows to a somewhat thickened placenta ..."
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