Definition of orthotropous. Meaning of orthotropous. Synonyms of orthotropous

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Definition of orthotropous

Orthotropous
Orthotropal Or*thot"ro*pal, Orthotropous Or*thot"ro*pous, a. [Ortho- + Gr. ? to turn: cf. F. orthotrope.] (Bot.) Having the axis of an ovule or seed straight from the hilum and chalaza to the orifice or the micropyle; atropous. Note: This word has also been used (but improperly) to describe any embryo whose radicle points towards, or is next to, the hilum.

Meaning of orthotropous from wikipedia

- ovule orientation in flowering plants), amphitropous, campylotropous, or orthotropous (anatropous are common and micropyle is in downward position and chalazal...
- both ends are near each other. Contrast anatropous, campylotropous, and orthotropous. amplexicaul With the base dilated and clasping the stem, usually of...
- shapes: the most common shape is called anatropous, with a curved shape. Orthotropous ovules are straight with all the parts of the ovule lined up in a long...
- more or less dry, two ovules per carpel but one nearly always aborts, orthotropous, bitegmic, cr****inucellated, pendulous, apical to marginal placentation...
- 1–100 or more per carpel, anatropous, hemianatropous, amphitropous or orthotropous, mostly hemitropous, bitegmic, cr****inucellate, chalaza with a ring of...
- consisting of a peduncle and helically arranged, up to about 100 small, orthotropous but incurved ovules; pedicel present; nucellus largely free." Unlike...
- a peduncle and up to eight or nine terminal, sessile, contiguous and orthotropous (straight, upright and with a micropyle at apex) ovules." The ovules...
- capitate or ligulate (in P. subgen. Ligulistigma) stigma; the ovule is orthotropous. The seeds have little or no endosperm. The cotyledons are ovate. Plants...
- Crane; Kaj Raunsgaard Pedersen (2018). "Tanispermum, a new genus of hemi-orthotropous to hemi-anatropous angiosperm seeds from the Early Cretaceous of eastern...