diageotropism

[dahy-uh-jee-o-truh-piz-uhm]

noun

Botany.

1. diageotropic tendency or growth.

diageotropism

/ ˌdaɪədʒɪˈɒtrəˌpɪzəm, ˌdaɪəˌdʒiːəʊˈtrɒpɪk /

noun

1. a diatropic response of plant parts, such as rhizomes, to the stimulus of gravity

Other Word Forms

• diageotropic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of diageotropism¹

First recorded in 1875–80; dia- + geotropism

Example Sentences

If displaced they resume, as Sachs has shown, their original sub-horizontal position; and this apparently is due to diageotropism.

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The benefits derived from geotropism, apogeotropism, and diageotropism, are generally so manifest that they need not be specified.

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In like manner positive geotropism, or bending towards the centre of the earth, will be called by us geotropism; apogeotropism will mean bending in opposition to gravity or from the centre of the earth; and diageotropism, a position more or less transverse to the radius of the earth.

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