a. Bot. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Running in an opposite direction round an axis.
1878. Masters, Henfrey’s Bot., 273. An inflorescence homodromous with the principal axis, antidromous with the leaf-bud.
1881. Vines, in Jrnl. Bot., X. No. 217. 4. When the antidromous branch is developed, a system of alternating branches is produced.
