Antitropous

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Antitropal \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.
     [1913 Webster]