Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

peritropal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: per-itropal
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.

adj

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

Archaic

Example Sentences

"“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,[…]”"

Etymology

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

Usage

Archaic

Questions

What does peritropal mean?: Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.
Where does peritropal come from?: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn”) + -al.

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