Meaning of peritropal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.
   not-comparable, rare
2. Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.
   archaic, not-comparable

Examples

““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.[…]””

“Our three-decade friend, Joe A. Kirgan, late of the Milford Gazette, has established a paper at Frost, Navarro county. Joe is a regular peritropal and peripatetic genius, never lasting more than three months in one place.”

“My peritropal jaunts were propelled by the sad and dreary loneliness of my hotel room in a downtown that was a shrunken shadow of what it was when Billy Phelan “made a right turn into the warmth of the stairs to Louie’s pool room,[…]””

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