Definition of Plagiotropic

1. a. Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Definition of Plagiotropic

1. Adjective. (botany) Growing at an oblique or almost horizontal angle ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plagiotropic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Plagiotropic

1. Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line. Origin: Gr. Aslant + to turn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plagiotropic

plagioclase
plagioclases
plagioclasic
plagioclastic
plagioclimax
plagionite
plagiosere
plagioseres
plagiostomatous
plagiostome
plagiostomes
plagiostomi
plagiostomous
plagiotremata
plagiotropic (current term)
plagium
plagiums
plagose
plague
plague bacillus
plague pneumonia
plague septicaemia
plague spot
plague vaccine
plagued
plagueful
plagueless
plaguelike
plaguer

Literary usage of Plagiotropic

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

1. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost, Robert John Harvey Gibson (1907)
"In plagiotropic organs. Radial organs, 446 ; rhizomes and lateral roots, 446; ... In plagiotropic organs. Leaves. Growth movements, 464; variation movements ..."

2. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Julius Sachs (1887)
"2j6), where I first made clear the causal relations between orthotropic growth and radial structure, and between plagiotropic growth and dorsiventral ..."

3. Comparative Electro-physiology: A Physico-physiological Study by Jagadis Chandra Bose (1907)
"... to differential excitability—Electrical response of pulvinus of Mimosa to equi-alternating electric shocks—Response of petiole of Musa— Of plagiotropic ..."

4. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Host radial and isobilateral members are orthotropic; all dorsiventral, and some radial members, are plagiotropic. For instance, radial primary shoots and ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We will deal with plagiotropic organs in a similar way. ... In the case of lateral root-branches these are plagiotropic Dut radia! ; they grow outwards, ..."

6. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"The most marked plagiotropic effect will be produced when photo-epinasty and ... the plagiotropic effect increasing as the direction of the incident rays ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"The bulk of the genus are, however, either plagiotropic and ... sometimes plagiotropic, and dorsiventral ..."

8. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... and plagiotropic, applied to the organ concerned. Because responses to tropic stimuli lead so often to the erect position of axes, such axes were first ..."

9. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost, Robert John Harvey Gibson (1907)
"In plagiotropic organs. Radial organs, 446 ; rhizomes and lateral roots, 446; ... In plagiotropic organs. Leaves. Growth movements, 464; variation movements ..."

10. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Julius Sachs (1887)
"2j6), where I first made clear the causal relations between orthotropic growth and radial structure, and between plagiotropic growth and dorsiventral ..."

11. Comparative Electro-physiology: A Physico-physiological Study by Jagadis Chandra Bose (1907)
"... to differential excitability—Electrical response of pulvinus of Mimosa to equi-alternating electric shocks—Response of petiole of Musa— Of plagiotropic ..."

12. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Host radial and isobilateral members are orthotropic; all dorsiventral, and some radial members, are plagiotropic. For instance, radial primary shoots and ..."

13. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"We will deal with plagiotropic organs in a similar way. ... In the case of lateral root-branches these are plagiotropic Dut radia! ; they grow outwards, ..."

14. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"The most marked plagiotropic effect will be produced when photo-epinasty and ... the plagiotropic effect increasing as the direction of the incident rays ..."

15. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"The bulk of the genus are, however, either plagiotropic and ... sometimes plagiotropic, and dorsiventral ..."

16. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... and plagiotropic, applied to the organ concerned. Because responses to tropic stimuli lead so often to the erect position of axes, such axes were first ..."

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