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Definition of Orthotropous
1. Adjective. (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex.
Definition of Orthotropous
1. Adjective. (botany of an ovule) Growing straight and having the micropyle at the apex ¹
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Definition of Orthotropous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Orthotropous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthotropous
Literary usage of Orthotropous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Ovules orthotropous. Fruit a cone or drupe, Embryo in the axis of the albumen.
Cotyledons 2 or more. Synopsis. ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... coriaceous, 1-celled and 1-seeded, surrounded at base by a dense ring of long
hairs; seed pendulous, orthotropous. Staminale and pistillate heads on ..."
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. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Ovary 1-celled ; style slender, adnate to the perianth-tube, stigmas 3 ; ovules
orthotropous, few, placentas 3 parietal. Berry oblong, 1-celled, few-seeded. ..."
5. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Fain. 2. ELATINACEAE. b. Seeds with copious endosperm. Flowers regular, except
for the 2 small outer sepals : androecium of many stamens, orthotropous. Fam. ..."
6. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"To the relationships as they are found in trees, which have orthotropous chief
... In many herbaceous perennials the flower-bearing shoot is orthotropous, ..."
7. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"And the term orthotropous, so used, is liable to be confused with orthotropous
as applied to the ovule. Richard, moreover, termed the embryo ..."
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