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
Thirdly and lastly, radicles when they first protrude from the seed are always geotropic, and plumules or shoots almost always apogeotropic.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
At the same time the loop became open and was thus reconverted into a hook, and this apparently was effected by the geotropic movement of the apex in opposition to epinasty.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
Plants, also, were selected which were but feebly geotropic or apogeotropic, or had become so from having grown rather old.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
Occasionally the bead remained stationary for about an hour, and then probably growth occurred on the side opposite to that which caused the geotropic curvature.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
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