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What does anatropous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Having an inverted nucleus, whose apex points to the base
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Rhaphe, the line or ridge which runs from the hilum to the chalaza in anatropous and amphitropous seeds.
The seed originates from anatropous, bitegmic, crassinucellate ovule.
Such varying differentiation of different parts of the ovule accounts for the occasional confusion of anatropous and campylotropous ovules.
The ridge or adnate funicle which in an anatropous ovule connects the two ends.
Raphe, the adherent funiculus connecting the hilum and chalaza in anatropous or amphitropous ovules or seeds.
The seeds that are truncate at one end are anatropous, some of them resembling those of red clover are half anatropous.

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