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peritropal

peritropal adjective: involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.

Adjective

peritropal (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.
    • “Suppose I should get up a ballet, drill the girls myself, and learn ’em all the peritropal movements; see that their skirts are short enough, and that they are graceful while dancing.[…]”1872, William Henry Thomes, chapter IV, in Life in the East Indies, Boston: Lee & Shepard, page 142
    • Our three-decade friend, Joe A. Kirgan, late of the Milford Gazette, has established a paper at Frost, Navarro county. Joe is a regular peritropal and peripatetic genius, never lasting more than three months in one place.1888 October 27, The Columbus Citizen, quotee, “The State Press”, in The Galveston Daily News, volume 47, number 183, page 10
  2. (archaic) Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.

Origin of peritropal

From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn”) + -al.

Questions about peritropal

What does peritropal mean?
Peritropal means involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.
What part of speech is peritropal?
Peritropal is an adjective.

Words near peritropal in the dictionary

  1. peritrichs
  2. peritrigonal
  3. peritrochanteric
  4. peritrochia
  5. peritrochium
  6. peritropal
  7. peritrophic
  8. peritrophin
  9. peritrophins
  10. peritropous
  11. peritruncal

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