acropetaladj.
/əˈkrɒpᵻtl/, U.S. /əˈkrɑpɛdl/ Tending or moving towards the summit or apex; (Botany) produced, developing, or opening successively from the base or point of attachment upwards (contrasted with basipetal).
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1873 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 11 184 Those who know anything of the development of leaves will at once recall to memory their well-known acropetal mode of development.
1915 W. L. Balls Devel. & Properties Raw Cotton ii. 43 The development of these various branches is mainly acropetal and centrifugal, or, in other words, a branch high up the main stem is younger than a lower branch.
1972 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 1971 285/2 Acropetal and basipetal movements of morphactin through the parenchyma of coleoptiles were at the same rates.
2001 Ann. Bot. 88 1188/2 Leaf inception at the shoot tip, however, nearly always occurs in an acropetal order.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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