peritropal adjective2 •(rare) Involving turning oneself around: rotating or circuitous.“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.[…]” — 1872 •(no longer used) Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.
