centrifugal

From Latin centrum (“center”) + fugiō (“to flee”) +‎ -al, probably coined by Christiaan Huygens.

• IPA^(key): /sɛnˈtɹɪf(j)əɡəl/, /sɛntɹəˈfjuːɡəl/

centrifugal (not comparable)

1. Tending, or causing, to recede from the center.
2. (botany) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster.
3. (botany) Having the radicle turned toward the sides of the fruit, as some embryos.

• centripetal

• centrifugal force

• centrifugal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• centrifugal Oxford Dictionaries on-line, Oxford University Press, 2012.