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 as roots, to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the centre of the Earth.

Etymologies

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dia- +‎ geotropism

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