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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek πλάτος (plátos, breadth) + -trope.

Noun

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platetrope (plural not attested)

  1. (anatomy) One of a pair of a paired organ.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for platetrope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)