Usually means: Ovule attached at its base.
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  1. orthotropous: Merriam-Webster
  2. orthotropous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orthotropous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orthotropous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orthotropous: Vocabulary.com
  6. orthotropous: Wordnik
  7. orthotropous: Wiktionary
  8. orthotropous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. orthotropous: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. orthotropous: Dictionary.com
  11. Orthotropous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. orthotropous: Rhymezone
  13. Orthotropous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. orthotropous: FreeDictionary.org
  15. orthotropous: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. orthotropous: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (orthotropous)

▸ adjective:  (botany, of an ovule) Growing straight and having the micropyle at the apex

Similar:
anatropous, orthotrophic, amphitropal, orthospermous, hemitropous, exoscopic, orthotropic, acephalous, germinal, macropodous, more...

Opposite:
anatropous, campylotropous, amphitropous

Phrases:
orthotropous ovule, more...

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Similar:
anatropous, orthotrophic, amphitropal, orthospermous, hemitropous, exoscopic, orthotropic, acephalous, germinal, macropodous, more...

Opposite:
anatropous, campylotropous, amphitropous

Phrases:
orthotropous ovule, more...



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