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antical

antical adjective: oriented towards the apex.

Adjective

antical (not comparable)

  1. Oriented towards the apex.
    Antonyms:
    postical
  2. Of or pertaining to the surface of a prostrate thallus that is oriented away from the substrate.
    • The antical margin is entire, the apex is usually tipped with a single acuminate tooth, although a second smaller tooth is sometimes present at the antical base of the apical tooth, or the apex may even be subequally bispinose.1914, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, page 593
    Antonyms:
    postical

Antonyms of antical

Origin of antical

From Latin antīcus (“anterior”) + -al.

Questions about antical

What does antical mean?
Antical means oriented towards the apex.
What part of speech is antical?
Antical is an adjective.

Words near antical in the dictionary

  1. anticaker
  2. anticakers
  3. anticaking
  4. anticaking agent
  5. anticaking agents
  6. antical
  7. Anticala
  8. anticalcific
  9. anticalcification
  10. anticalcifying
  11. anticalcineurin

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