a combining form meaning "one turned toward" that specified by the initial element ( heliotrope ); also occurring in concrete nouns that correspond to abstract nouns ending in -tropy or -tropism: allotrope.
[ -tropos; see TROPE, TROPO- ]
a combining form meaning "one turned toward" that specified by the initial element ( heliotrope ); also occurring in concrete nouns that correspond to abstract nouns ending in -tropy or -tropism: allotrope.
[ -tropos; see TROPE, TROPO- ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012