nastic
of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
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a combining form occurring in adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -nasty: hyponastic.
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How to use nastic in a sentence
There is no line of demarcation between tropic and nastic movements.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 | Sir Jagadis Chunder BoseMoreover, the tropic action of unilateral light may become nastic by internal diffusion of excitation.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 | Sir Jagadis Chunder BoseThe employment of the term 'nastic' is, however, convenient when used in a well-defined and restricted sense.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 | Sir Jagadis Chunder BoseNo sharp distinction can therefore be made between the movements of growth and of variation, between tropic and nastic curvatures.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 | Sir Jagadis Chunder BoseI have already referred to the distinction that is made between nastic and paratonic movements.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 | Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
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