peritropal

adjective

1. Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.

   rare

   “Suppose I should get up a ballet, drill the girls myself, and learn ’em all the peritropal movements; see that their skirts are short enough, and that they are graceful while dancing.[…]”

2. Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.

   archaic

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn”) + -al.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry peritropal (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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