Definition of Acropetally

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acropetally

acronymists
acronymization
acronymize
acronymized
acronymizes
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acronymous
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acrook
acropachy
acropachyderma
acroparesthesia
acroparesthesia syndrome
acropathy
acropetal
acropetally (current term)
acrophase
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acrophobe
acrophobes
acrophobia
acrophobias
acrophobic
acrophone
acrophonic
acrophonical
acrophonically
acrophonies
acrophony

Literary usage of Acropetally

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"From these regions it progresses acropetally and basipetally the tips of the branches being usually the last parts affected. With concentrations of KCN ..."

2. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"They grow acropetally, basipetally, and circumferentially (fig. ... Infections extend acropetally into regions of stem having only primary growth and even ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... are in stro- bili that develop acropetally, with suggestions that they may have come " from a peltate type like the ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"In both cases the exhaustion proceeds acropetally, from the base onwards. At the apex remains a zone which is not emptied, and its cells are full of ..."

5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"The strobilus, however, rises higher before showing any protuberances, and when these appear they rise acropetally and project at right angles to the cone ..."

6. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... Bun'dies, vascular bundles growing acropetally with the stem, having no direct communication with the bundles which pase into the leaves. Cau'lis (Lat. ..."

7. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"It is not necessary to fix upon any type of sporophyte represented in any living) plant as a prototype: what is contemplated is an acropetally growing body, ..."

8. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"The unfolding of lateral buds may proceed acropetally or basi- pe tally, or exhibit no definite order. On highly-branched shoot- systems the more peripheral ..."

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