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Definition: ANTITROPOUS

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. 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 antitropously.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(antitropously)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective antitropous.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Antitropous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: ANTITROPOUS

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. 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 antitropously.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(antitropously)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective antitropous.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "ANTITROPOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)