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orthotropous
[ awr-tho-truh-puhs ]
adjective
- Botany. (of an ovule) straight and symmetrical, with the chalaza at the evident base and the micropyle at the opposite extremity.
orthotropous
/ ɔːˈθɒtrəpəs /
adjective
- (of a plant ovule) growing straight during development so that the micropyle is at the apex Compare anatropous
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Word History and Origins
Origin of orthotropous1
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Example Sentences
Nutlets coriaceous, small, tawny-hairy below, containing a single orthotropous pendulous seed.
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Fruit a kind of dry drupe, with a crustaceous or bony nut-shell, containing a large 4-lobed orthotropous seed.
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Ovary 2–3-celled, with several pendulous orthotropous ovules in each cell; stigma minute.
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Orthotropous or Straight, those which develop without curving or turning, as in Fig. 344.
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Orthotropous ovule of Buckwheat: c, hilum and chalaza; f, orifice.
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