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)