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Definition of Acropetal
1. Adjective. Of leaves or flowers; developing or opening in succession from base to apex.
Definition of Acropetal
1. a. Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.
Definition of Acropetal
1. Adjective. (botany) That develops, matures or opens from the base towards the apex in sequence ¹
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Definition of Acropetal
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Acropetal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acropetal
Literary usage of Acropetal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"In the case of cyclic flowers, in which toral growth in length has been checked
and there has been growth in diameter, the acropetal succession of members ..."
2. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Julius Sachs (1887)
"If, however, we give the cut-off piece the reverse position, with the acropetal
end downwards, the two causes mentioned must work in the opposite way : the ..."
3. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"... both origination and completion proceed in the acropetal direction in all ...
in acropetal order of succession, so far as my investigations extend. ..."
4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"The leaf-apex itself passes at an early period into the permanent condition, but
below this there remains an embryonal zone on which in acropetal succession ..."
5. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"This was endowed with apical growth, and an acropetal succession of its
spore-development. The latter was relegated towards the surface, a change clearly ..."
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