Definition of Heliotropic

1. a. Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.

Definition of Heliotropic

1. Adjective. exhibiting heliotropism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heliotropic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Heliotropic

1. Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heliotropic

heliotheist
heliotheistic
heliotheists
heliotherapeutic
heliotherapies
heliotherapy
heliothermic
heliothid
heliothids
heliothis moth
heliotomography
heliotrope
heliotrope cyanosis
heliotroper
heliotropes
heliotropic (current term)
heliotropin
heliotropism
heliotropisms
heliotype
heliotyped
heliotypes
heliotypic
heliotypies
heliotyping
heliotypy
heliox
heliozoan
heliozoans
heliozoic

Literary usage of Heliotropic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This may be explained by an absence of heliotropic sensitiveness, but in some cases it is due to the fact that the organs ..."

2. Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct by Jacques Loeb (1918)
"CHAPTER XI THE RELATIVE heliotropic EFFICIENCY OF LIGHT OF DIFFERENT WAVE LENGTHS 1. The validity of the Bunsen-Roscoe law for the helio- tropic reactions ..."

3. The Dynamics of Living Matter by Jacques Loeb (1906)
"After having begun to eat, their heliotropic sensitiveness diminishes or ... At the time of sexual maturity the males and females are markedly heliotropic;* ..."

4. Studies in General Physiology by Jacques Loeb (1905)
"I think also that I have discovered a difference in positively and in negatively heliotropic animals with regard to the liberation of energy. ..."

5. The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1900)
"Distinction between heliotropism and the effects of light on the periodicity of the movements of leaves—heliotropic movements of Beta, Solanum, Zea, ..."

6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"The animals which live free at the surface of the ocean, as far as I have been able to examine them, are all positively heliotropic. Those among them which ..."

7. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Julius Sachs (1887)
"In addition to these reflections, also, I came to the conclusion that in heliotropic curvatures the important point is not at all that the one side of the ..."

8. Practical Plant Physiology: An Introduction to Original Research for by Wilhelm Detmer, S. A. (Samuel Albert) Moor (1898)
"heliotropic Nutations. Many plant structures, especially young stems, when exposed to one-sided illumination, bend towards the rays of light; ..."

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