Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, looking toward (that is, on the side toward) the apex.
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- adjective Toward or facing the
apex .
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- adjective facing or on the side toward the apex
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In the genus LeptomitvSy as here limited, branches arise only from the acroscopic ends of the segments, close to the origins of the next segments of the axial series (Fig. 6).
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