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English
Etymology
See hemitrope.
Adjective
hemitropous (comparative more hemitropous, superlative most hemitropous)
- Turned half round; half inverted.
- (botany, of an ovule) Having the raphe terminating about halfway between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous[1]
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References
- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “.] Hemitropous.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, , New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G P Putnam & Co., , →OCLC.