Peritropal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Peritropal is an adjective meaning (botany, archaic) Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.
Meaning
(botany, archaic) Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.
More Meanings
- (rare) Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.
Example Sentences
“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.[…]”
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.
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,[…]”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include peristrephic, circumvolutionary, vertiginous, rotational, rotatory, circumvolutory.
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