Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, turning away from the light: applied to shoots or other parts of plants: opposed to heliotropic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Turning away from the sun; -- said of leaves, etc.
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- adjective Turning away from the
sun ; said ofleaves , etc.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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If you ever come across heliotropic or apheliotropic aerial roots on
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Bignonia capreolata, with its strongly apheliotropic tendrils (which I had from Kew), is now interesting me greatly.
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n. - cutting off beginning of word. aphaeretic, apheliotropic adj. - growing away from the sun. apheliotropism,
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