anatropous ovule

NOUN
  1. a completely inverted ovule turned back 180 degrees on its stalk
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How To Use anatropous ovule In A Sentence

  • No inversion can, therefore, really take place in anatropous ovules, but the blade of the leaf is bent back on the funicle, with which its margins also cohere. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
  • Speaking generally, the most common state of things in these flowers was the occurrence on the throat of the calyx, in the position ordinarily occupied by the stamens, and sometimes mingled with those organs, of twisted, ribbon-like filaments, which bore about the centre one or more pendulous, anatropous ovules on their margins. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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