nastic movement

/ (ˈnæstɪk) /

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noun

a response of plant parts that is independent of the direction of the external stimulus, such as the opening of buds caused by an alteration in light intensity

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Word Origin for nastic movement

C19 nastic, from Greek nastos close-packed, from nassein to press down

Words nearby nastic movement

Nasser, Gamal Abdel, Nasse's law, Nast, Nastase, nastic, nastic movement, nasturtium, nasty, nasus, nasute, NAS/UWT

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How to use nastic movement in a sentence

Any plans to grow her exercise movement must, she insists, remain “completely organic.”
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But the real mystery and injustice came from Brooke being essentially written out of the history of the civil rights movement.
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Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?
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The feminist movement has encouraged women that they can initiate romantic relationships, too.
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Even in the parts of the movement he does cover, some people and efforts are missing.
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Selections for practice should be chosen which contain much variety of thought and feeling and are smooth in movement.
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Besides this fundamental or primary vibration, the movement divides itself into segments, or sections, of the entire length.
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The major-general kept him well informed of every movement of the enemy, and pointed out the dangerous isolation of Davout.
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The significance of time is determined by the movement of any selection, or, in other words, the rhythm.
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He sympathized with that movement which, during his childhood, culminated in the Cavite Conspiracy (vide p. 106).
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