Hĕt'er-ŏt'ro-pal or Hĕt'er-ŏt'ro-poūs, a.

a. [Fr. hétérotrope, from Gr. ἕτερος, other, and τροπή, a turning, τρέπειν, to turn.] (Bot.) Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the axis of the seed; amphitropous. Gray.