Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - tropism
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Tropism
tropism
noun combining form Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from trop- tropism heliotropism TROPISM noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary -~ Date: 1899 1. a. involuntary orientation by an organism or one of its parts that involves turning or curving by movement or by differential growth and is a positive or negative response to a source of stimulation b. a reflex reaction involving a ~ 2. an innate tendency to react in a definite manner to stimuli; broadly a natural inclination ; propensity encouraged his ~ toward the theatrical — John Updike • tropistic adjective
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n. Biol. the turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus. Etymology: Gk tropos turning f. trepo turn ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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- 1899, "tendency of an animal or plant to turn or move in response to a stimulus," abstracted from geotropism. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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