homodromous

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English

Etymology

From homo- +‎ -dromous.

Adjective

homodromous (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Running in the same direction; said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
  2. (engineering) Moving in the same direction (said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “homodromous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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