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Definition of Apical placentation
1. Noun. Where one or few ovules develop at the top of a simple or compound ovary.
Generic synonyms: Placentation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apical Placentation
Literary usage of Apical placentation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Joseph Decaisne, Emmanuel Le Maout (1876)
"... and dilated into a false vertical septum ; sometimes 1-celled, with parietal,
basilar or apical placentation; sometimes divided into several ..."
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