1. Adjective. (botany) Displaying, of, or pertaining to antitropy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Antitropous
1. at the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.
Origin: Pref. Anti- + Gr. Turn, to turn.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)
