nastic
[nas-tik]
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adjective Botany.
of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
Origin of nastic
1900–10; < Greek nast(ós) pressed close, stamped down, firm (equivalent to nad- stem of nássein to press, squeeze + -tos past participle suffix, with dt > st) + -ic
-nastic
Origin of -nastic
see origin at nastic
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Historical Examples of nastic
There is no line of demarcation between tropic and nastic movements.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
The employment of the term 'nastic' is, however, convenient when used in a well-defined and restricted sense.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
No 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, 1919Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose