Apical: alternatives and connections

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without sockets

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

One of the small pedestals, for statues or other ornaments, placed on the apex and at the basal angles of a pediment. Acroteria are al…

The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangl…

Having the ovule inverted at an early period in its development, so that the chalaza is as the apparent apex; -- opposed to orthotropo…

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an arch with a gap at the apex; the gap is usually filled with some decoration

Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.

Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.

The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

The topmost part of anything; the summit.

Top; summit; acme.

Reclining on the ground, as if too weak to stand, and tending to rise at the summit or apex; as, a decumbent stem.

Having two plane faces; as, the dihedral summit of a crystal.

Notched at the summit.

A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, ir…