Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, transverse geotropism; a turning in a direction at right angles to that of gravitation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.
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- noun botany The tendency of
plant organs , such asroots , to assume a positionoblique ortransverse to a direction towards the centre of the Earth.
Etymologies
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dia- + geotropism
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