geotropic
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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
Five radicles of Cucurbita ovifera remained horizontal in peat-earth during 25 h., and 9 remained so in damp air during 8 ½ h.; whilst the controls became slightly geotropic in 4 h.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
Of 5 cauterised radicles of Gossypium herbaceum, 4 remained horizontal for 23 h. and 1 became slightly geotropic; 6 control radicles were distinctly geotropic in 7 h.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
The control specimens were slightly geotropic in 7 h.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
The main stem is negatively geotropic, i.e. its apex continues to grow vertically upwards when we put it obliquely into the aquarium, while the roots grow vertically downwards.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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