a. Bot. [f. as next + -AL.] = ANATROPOUS.
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 397. Such ovules as these Mirbel terms anatropal … examples may be found in the almond, the apple.
1854. Balfour, in Encycl. Brit., II. 141. In orthotropal seeds the embryo is said to be inverted … while in anatropal seeds it is erect.
