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Definition of Orthotropous ovule
1. Noun. A completely straight ovule with the micropyle at the apex.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orthotropous Ovule
Literary usage of Orthotropous ovule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Ovary 1-celled, with an erect orthotropous ovule, becoming a drupe-like waxy ...
Ovary 1-celled, with an erect orthotropous ovule. Style 1. Calyx Oi>. ..."
2. The Microscopy of Technical Products by Thomas Franz Hanausek (1907)
"A orthotropous ovule with two integuments: / funiculus; ch chalaza; ... C horizontal
orthotropous ovule.—D ascending anatropous ovule with ventral raphe. ..."
3. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"... from which they are distinguished by their 1-celled ovary and erect orthotropous
ovule, and by their properties. Mr. Chapman has joined to ..."
4. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... encloses a single erect orthotropous ovule. The <$ flowers are usually borne
on the bract; they may or may not have a perianth, and the stamens are Fis. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... consisting of delicate cellular tissue containing deep in its substance an
embryo-sac 6. The micropyle m îs very wide. FIG. 108.—orthotropous ovule of ..."
6. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"Now in a pendent orthotropous ovule the micropyle is turned away from the
pollen-tube, and the object and effect of the ovule being reversed or ..."
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