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Definition of Thermotropism
1. Noun. An orienting response to warmth.
Definition of Thermotropism
1. n. The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.
Definition of Thermotropism
1. Noun. (context: botany) Thermotropic movement of a plant or plant part in response to changes in temperature. ¹
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Definition of Thermotropism
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Medical Definition of Thermotropism
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermotropism
Literary usage of Thermotropism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"VAN TIEGHEM suggested, in his a priori account of thermotropism, ... WORTMANN,
on the other hand, believed that the sense of thermotropism is due to a ..."
2. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"VAN TIEGHEM suggested, in his a priori account of thermotropism, ... WORTMANN,
on the other hand, believed that the sense of thermotropism is due to a ..."
3. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"VAN TIEGHEM suggested, in his a priori account of thermotropism, ... WORTMANN,
on the other hand, believed that the sense of thermotropism is due to a ..."
4. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"WORTMANN, on the other hand, believed that the sense of thermotropism is ...
Such a result indicates clearly that thermotropism is a response to stimulus. ..."
5. Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct by Jacques Loeb (1918)
"CHAPTER XVII thermotropism UNDER the name of thermotropism M. Mendelssohn 352-335
has described the observation that ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1914)
"thermotropism IN ROOTS HENRY D. HOOKER, JR. Osborn Botanical Laboratory, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut The effects produced by the application of ..."
7. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"This latter investigator by careful experimental means showed that in the case
of Phycomyces no sign of thermotropism was exhibited, and that a seedling of ..."
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