antipodaladj.n.
1. Of or pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.
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the world > the earth > geodetic references > [adjective] > antipodes
antipodal1646
Antipodean1861
antipodeal1881
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 306 The Americans are Antipodall unto the Indians. View more context for this quotation
1831 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus (1858) 46 The antipodal New Holland.
1877 C. W. Shields Final Philos. 168 The Irish St. Virgilius in the ninth century, dared to advocate the theory of antipodal races.
2. transf. Diametrically opposite (to anything).
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the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [adjective] > opposite or opposed
turneda1325
reversedc1390
contrary1413
opposeda1500
oppositea1513
inverted1563
counter1596
diametrical1613
contraposed1620
oppositive1622
averse1623
diagonial1624
contrarying1628
diametrala1631
conversive1636
Antipodian1640
converted1640
exadverse1647
Antarctic1651
Antipodean1651
antipodal1664
in reverse1694
contradictory1736
converse1794
antithesistic1801
contravening1802
diametric1802
reverse1828
polar1832
antipodist1844
antithetic1864
other-sided1879
antipodic1881
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity iv. 10 So horrid and diabolical and so antipodal to both the Person and Spirit of Christ.
1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses from Old Manse II. 173 There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man's cold, unimaginative sagacity.
1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 70 Two such antipodal characters as Coleridge and Thomas Carlyle.
3. spec. in Bot. Applied to cells at the base of the embryo sac, formed by division of the nucleus. Hence as n., a cell of this kind.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] > of parts > relating to embryo or radicle > of embryo-sac and its parts
amniotic1870
antipodal1876
1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 146/1 In some cases at the base of the embryo-sac a few cells are formed, which have been termed antipodal cells.
1898 Nat. Sci. June 375 The variety in the place of origin of the embryos from egg-cells, synergids, antipodal cells, or nucellus.
1946 Nature 10 Aug. 204/2 After fertilization, the antipodals also behave normally.
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