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centrifugal
adjective 
  1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
  2. (botany) (a) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster. (b) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.
Etymology: From centrum center + fugere (-fugal) to flee.

     
 
  

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