orthotropous
/awr-tho-truh-puhs/US // ɔrˈθɒ trə pəs //UK // (ɔːˈθɒtrəpəs) //
正统的,正向的,正统派的,正统派
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : Botany. straight and symmetrical, with the chalaza at the evident base and the micropyle at the opposite extremity.
Examples
Nutlets coriaceous, small, tawny-hairy below, containing a single orthotropous pendulous seed.
Fruit a kind of dry drupe, with a crustaceous or bony nut-shell, containing a large 4-lobed orthotropous seed.
Ovary 2–3-celled, with several pendulous orthotropous ovules in each cell; stigma minute.
Orthotropous or Straight, those which develop without curving or turning, as in Fig. 344.
Orthotropous ovule of Buckwheat: c, hilum and chalaza; f, orifice.
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