Orthospermous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Orthospermous is an adjective meaning (botany) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants.
Meaning
(botany) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants.
Example Sentences
But in regard to the differences both in the internal and external structure of the seeds, […] in the Umbelliferae these differences are of such apparent importance—the seeds being in some cases, according to Tausch, orthospermous in the exterior flowers and cœlospermous in the central flowers,—[…]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include oligospermous, orthotropous, angiospermous, aspermous, coelospermous, peritropal.
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