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OUTWARD-DEVELOPING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does outward-developing mean?
• OUTWARD-DEVELOPING (adjective)
The adjective OUTWARD-DEVELOPING has 1 sense:
1. away from an axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center, the youngest near the edge
Familiarity information: OUTWARD-DEVELOPING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OUTWARD-DEVELOPING (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Away from an axis, as in a flower cluster in which the oldest flowers are in the center, the youngest near the edge
Similar:
centrifugal (tending to move away from a center)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
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