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Meaning of ANTITROPAL

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\An*tit"ro*pal\, Antitropous \An*tit"ro*pous\, a.
[Pref. anti- + Gr. ? turn, ? to turn.] (Bot.)
At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo,
or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.
--Lindley.
 
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