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heliotropism

NOUN
  1. an orienting response to the sun

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  • His very geographical situation was sufficient to turn the mind towards him, but the particular reason for that heliotropism on the part of his feminine neighbors was that he was an easy man for a woman to ask. The Wrong Woman
  • They give the quintessence of laboratory experiments as to what are the effects of different energies such as light (heliotropism), electricity (galvanotropism), gravity (geotropism), etc., in their reaction and influence upon the movements and actions of living organisms. Manhood of Humanity.
  • All legume plants do this, so be sure to watch your peas and beans for signs of heliotropism.
  • I tiptoed religiously by it, went on up to the big house where the three women slept, as if drawn to their abode by a sort of heliotropism. Tramping on Life
  • Wiesner's papers on heliotropism are in the "Denkschriften" of the Vienna Academy, Volumes More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • The adaptive significance of solar tracking in snow buttercups is mediated through the impact of flower heliotropism on paternal and maternal floral environments.
  • They give the quintessence of laboratory experiments as to what are the effects of different energies such as light (heliotropism), electricity (galvanotropism), gravity (geotropism), etc., in their reaction and influence upon the movements and actions of living organisms. Manhood of Humanity.
  • It is curious that a hybrid Hedychium in my garden shows scarcely any trace of this paraheliotropism, while both the parent species are very paraheliotropic. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
  • The sensitiveness belonging to living substance, known by the names heliotropism, chemotropism, etc., is like a sketch of sensation and of the reactions following it; organic memory is the basis and the obliterated form of conscious memory. Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English
  • Are we to suppose that the upper half of the body or eye had a positive heliotropism and the lower half a negative heliotropism? Hormones and Heredity
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