Word Meaning

Meaning of "centripetal" and the crossword clue

- Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
- Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
- Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
- Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.