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Definition of Amphitropous
1. Adjective. (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk.
Medical Definition of Amphitropous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Amphitropous
Literary usage of Amphitropous
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 (1880)
"... distinct, with 2-celled anthers; ovary 1-celled, containing a solitary
amphitropous or campylo- tropous ovule on a funicle rising from its base, ..."
2. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"Ovules amphitropous or campylotropous, solitary, erect. Styles as many as the
ovaries. ... Ovule single, erect, amphitropous. Stigma many- cleft. ..."
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, or amphitropous.2 521. ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Ovary subglobose, compressed; styles 2, distinct, or united at the base; ovule
solitary, amphitropous. Utricle sub- globose, somewhat compressed, ..."
5. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Ovules laterally affixed, amphitropous. Inflorescence centrifugal, cymose. ).
CALLICARPA. Flowers 4-merous (rarely 5-merous in calyx and corolla), ..."
6. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Ovule and seed attached near the base of the style, ascending and amphitropous.
1. S. procumbens L. Stems less than 1 dm. high, more or less hirsute- ..."
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