He*mit"ro*pal (?), He*mit"ro*pous (?), a. [See Hemitrope.]

1.

Turned half round; half inverted.

2. Bot.

Having the raphe terminating about half way between the chalaza and the orifice; amphitropous; -- said of an ovule.

Gray.

 

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