-TROPE


Meaning of -TROPE in English

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 .