| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. An alternative spelling for "Antitropous": At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb antitropally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (antitropally) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective antitropal.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ANTITROPAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Expressions: ANTITROPAL
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Antitropal ventilation | Mining | Ventilation by a current of air traveling in the opposite direction to that of the flow of mineral out of the mine. See also: ascensional ventilation; descensional ventilation; homotropal ventilation. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
