Het`er*ot"ro*pal (?), Het`er*ot"ro*pous (), a. [Gr. "etero`tropos turning another way; other + to turn: cf. F. h'et'erotrope.] Bot.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous.

Gray.

 

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