Dictionary entry

Homotropal

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Ho‐mot″ro‐pal (?), Ho‐mot″ro‐pous (?), } a. [Gr. �; � the same + � turn, fr. � to turn: cf. F. homotrope.] 1. Turned in the same direction with something else.

2. (Bot.) Having the radicle of the seed directed towards the hilum.