basewards

comparative more basewards · superlative most basewards · alternative baseward

1. Toward the base of a structure.

   Further towards the root hair base, the cytoplasm is increasingly vacuolated, and still further basewards, the root hair tube is completely vacuolated.

   2004, Keith Lindsey, editor, Annual Plant Reviews, Polarity in Plants, volume 12, Blackwell Publishing, page 3

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   … in the space above the cell it forms a right angle whose limbs are equal projecting bor derwards in the cell one whose limbs are unequal projecting basewards, …

   1865, Proceedings of the Enotmological Society of Philadelphia, volume V, page 9

   The fact that trees project baseward beneath layer A1 indicates that most or all of layer A1 accumulated after the trees fell; the presence of intact bark beneath A1 material indicates that abrasion by layer A1 was small on horizontal surfaces.

   1981, PETER W LIPMAN, DONAL R MULLINEAUX, editors, THE 1980 ERUPTIONS OF MOUNT ST. HELENS, WASHINGTON, United States Geological Survey, page 452