geotropic
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Perhaps there is something about the geotropic, burrowing urge that betrays a kind of deep-seated introspection – a desire to dig, to escape further from reality, to withdraw into a private fantasy world.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
We have seen that if the end of the primary radicle is cut off or injured, the adjoining secondary radicles become geotropic and grow vertically downwards.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
As soon as the confluent petioles protrude from the seed they bend down, as they are strongly geotropic, and penetrate the ground.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
In Ciesielski's experiments the radicles could not have grown very irregularly, for if they had done so, he could not have spoken confidently of the obliteration of all geotropic action.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
Brassica oleracea: circumnutating and geotropic movement of radicle, traced on horizontal glass during 46 hours. fastened so as to project quite vertically upwards.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
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