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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn”) + -al.
Adjective
peritropal (not comparable)
- (rare) Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.
1872, William Henry Thomes, chapter IV, in Life in the East Indies, Boston: Lee & Shepard, page 142:“Suppose I should get up a ballet, drill the girls myself, and learn ’em all the peritropal movements; see that their skirts are short enough, and that they are graceful while dancing. […]”
1888 October 27, The Columbus Citizen, quotee, “The State Press”, in The Galveston Daily News, volume 47, number 183, page 10:Our three-decade friend, Joe A. Kirgan, late of the Milford Gazette, has established a paper at Frost, Navarro county. Joe is a regular peritropal and peripatetic genius, never lasting more than three months in one place.
2008, Peter Quinn, Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America, Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, →ISBN, page 145:My peritropal jaunts were propelled by the sad and dreary loneliness of my hotel room in a downtown that was a shrunken shadow of what it was when Billy Phelan “made a right turn into the warmth of the stairs to Louie’s pool room, […]”
- (botany, archaic) Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.
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