geotropic
Americanadjective
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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 Darwin, Charles
The five controls were somewhat geotropic after 7 h.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
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
We may therefore conclude that grease on the tips of the radicles of this Phaseolus somewhat delays and lessens the geotropic curvature of the part which ought to bend most.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
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