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Definition of Anatropous
1. Adjective. (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk.
Definition of Anatropous
1. Adjective. (botany of an ovule) Having an inverted nucleus, whose apex points to the base ¹
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Definition of Anatropous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Anatropous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anatropous
Literary usage of Anatropous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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, ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"Ovary and capsule with 2 to 5 parietal placenta?, or 2 - 5-celled by their union
in the axis. Seeds anatropous, with a somewhat crustaceous coat, ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Seeds anatropous. Embryo large and straight, in scanty albumen ; cotyledons broad
and flat. ... anatropous ..."
4. Flora of the southern United States: Containing Abridged Descriptions of the by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1872)
"Ovary free from the calyx, 4 - 9-celled. Stigma lobed, nearly sessile.
Drupe berry-like, composed of 4 - 9 one-seeded nutlets. Seeds anatropous, suspended. ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"Seeds anatropous, with a large straight embryo in hard Stamens 2, 3, or 4.
Ovary superior, 2-celled with 2 or more ovules in have simple leaves and a ..."
6. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"... withering away, or the base thickened-persistent and enclosing the fruit
Anthers introrse. Ovules anatropous. Style 1 : stigma 3-lobed or 6-toothed. ..."
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