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campylotropous

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cam·py·lot·ro·pous   (kām'pə-lŏt'rə-pəs)   
adj.   Botany
Having an ovule partially inverted and curved such that the micropyle nearly meets the funiculus.

[Greek kampulos, curved + -tropous.]
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