geotropic
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- geotropically adverb
Etymology
Origin of geotropic
Example Sentences
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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
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
The control specimens were slightly geotropic in 7 h.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
The fourth radicle was vertically geotropic after 23 h.; but by an * 'Arbeiten des Bot.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
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 Darwin, Charles
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