a. Also kath-. [f. Gr. κάθοδος way down (see next) + -AL.]
1. Electr. Belonging to the cathode.
1882. Athenæum, 8 July, 50/3. The character (anodal or kathodal) of the electric charge.
2. Bot. = CATHODIC 2.
1882. Vines, Sachs’ Bot., 366. In Fontinalis the branch arises beneath the median line of the leaf; but in Sphagnum beneath its cathodal half.
