"basewards" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From base + -wards.",
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      "form": "more basewards",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1865, Proceedings of the Enotmological Society of Philadelphia, volume V, page 9:",
          "text": "… 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, …",
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          "ref": "1981, PETER W LIPMAN, DONAL R MULLINEAUX, editors, THE 1980 ERUPTIONS OF MOUNT ST. HELENS, WASHINGTON, United States Geological Survey, page 452:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Keith Lindsey, editor, Annual Plant Reviews, Polarity in Plants, volume 12, Blackwell Publishing, page 3:",
          "text": "Further towards the root hair base, the cytoplasm is increasingly vacuolated, and still further basewards, the root hair tube is completely vacuolated.",
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        "Toward the base of a structure."
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  "word": "basewards"
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  "etymology_text": "From base + -wards.",
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          "ref": "1865, Proceedings of the Enotmological Society of Philadelphia, volume V, page 9:",
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          "ref": "1981, PETER W LIPMAN, DONAL R MULLINEAUX, editors, THE 1980 ERUPTIONS OF MOUNT ST. HELENS, WASHINGTON, United States Geological Survey, page 452:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Keith Lindsey, editor, Annual Plant Reviews, Polarity in Plants, volume 12, Blackwell Publishing, page 3:",
          "text": "Further towards the root hair base, the cytoplasm is increasingly vacuolated, and still further basewards, the root hair tube is completely vacuolated.",
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