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Webster 1913 Edition
Amphitropous
{
Am-phit′ro-pal
(-pal)
, Am-phit′ro-pous
(-pŭs)
, } Adj.
[Gr.
ἀμφί
+ τρέπειν
to turn.] (Bot.)
Having the ovule inverted, but with the attachment near the middle of one side; half anatropous.