English Explanatory Dictionary

peritropal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.
  2. Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.

Word forms

peritropal

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn”) + -al.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on P Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary