basewards

English

Alternative forms

• baseward

Etymology

From base +‎ -wards.

Adjective

basewards (comparative more basewards, superlative most basewards)

1. Toward the base of a structure.
   • 1865, Proceedings of the Enotmological Society of Philadelphia, volume V, page 9:

     … 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, …

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

     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.

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

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