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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Directed forward and upward, as the hairs on certain plant stems.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany and zoology, bent or directed forward or upward: especially, in ornithology, applied to the bristly feathers which fill the nasal fossæ of such birds as crows and jays.
- In ichthyology, turned forward: said of spines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Forward or upward in direction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology
curved forward andupward
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bent or curved forward or upward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin antrōrsum, from Latin anterior, before (perhaps after intrōrsum, inwards, from interior, inside); see anterior.]
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