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Definition of Hydrotropic
1. a. Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots.
Definition of Hydrotropic
1. Adjective. exhibiting hydrotropism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hydrotropic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hydrotropic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrotropic
Literary usage of Hydrotropic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Plant Physiology: An Introduction to Original Research for by Wilhelm Detmer, S. A. (Samuel Albert) Moor (1898)
"GEOTROPIC, HELIOTROPIC, AND hydrotropic NUTATIONS, AND SOME OTHER PHENOMENA OF
IRRITABILITY. 172. The Geotropic Behaviour of Roots. ..."
2. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"... are such things as negatively hydrotropic organs ; we might expect, for
instance, that since roots are positively hydrotropic, stems would be negatively ..."
3. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"Such showed almost no hydrotropic movements. Killing the tip by caustic produced
the same result. Thus the terminal two millimetres or so include the ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Organs which curve im this way are said to be " positively hydrotropic ...
Darwin came to the conclusion tbat the hydrotropic sensitiveness of roots at ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Organs which curve in tb ° i way are said to be "positively hydrotropic"; ...
Darwin came to the conclusion that the hydrotropic sensitiveness of roots at ..."
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