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Definition of Acroscopic
1. Adjective. Facing or on the side toward the apex.
Definition of Acroscopic
1. Adjective. Toward or facing the apex. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acroscopic
Literary usage of Acroscopic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Julius Sachs (1887)
"If the tuber lies horizontally in the earth, all the shoot-buds arise on the
upper side : if, on the contrary, the acroscopic end of the tuber (ie the end ..."
2. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae) by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"Each semi-segment is divided into an acroscopic and ... The leaves arise from
one of the dorsal cells, which may be either acroscopic or ..."
3. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"This -wall is called the principal wall of the segment2. Each segment has two
principal walls, one (acroscopic) by which it was separated from the apical ..."
4. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"... growing points of this type can be traced back to the early delimitation of
a new apical cell in the acroscopic half of a young segment (Fig. 94 at 6). ..."
5. The Philippine Journal of Science by Institute of Science and Technology (Philippines) (1908)
"and Benguet are the teeth cleft at the apex, and the wing, decurrent from the
lowest acroscopic pinnule, which occupies the angle between the main rachis ..."
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