Growing or turning toward the right side, another term for dextrotropic used mostly in older botanical texts.
From dextro- (Latin dexter, 'right') + -tropous (from Greek tropos, 'turning'). This variant form is less common than dextrotropic but appears in 19th-century botanical literature.
The -ous ending makes this an older scientific style—like Victorian botanists were being extra fancy with their plant descriptions before standardized terminology took over!
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