Extrorse: alternatives and connections

A means of defense formed by felled trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.

A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e.…

One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.

A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top…

Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions)…

a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…

Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ ou…

a neuron conducting impulses outwards from the brain or spinal cord

To turn outwards, or inside out, as an intestine.

Having the anterior scute/ extending around the tarsus on the outer side, leaving the inner side naked; -- said of certain birds.

The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building; facing.

Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.

To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.

Opening or speading outwards.

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full siz…