Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a movement of a plant that is in response to an external stimulus but is in a direction independent of the direction of the stimulus, as in the diurnal movement of leaves.
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- adjective Relates to the response of a
plant to astimulus that does not depend on the location of the stimulus.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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I posted my prego belly which you can image led to a prego-nastic muffin top on Petroville's online baby shower for Surburban Turmoil:
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We suffered through mandatory middle school Latin (well except the few who seemed to like it) and received endless uniform violations, we build stunt-nastic pyramids, scaled ropes courses, explored Career Days and although we never made it to D.C., we survived Y2K and APUSH.
Sofi Newmyer: Tomorrow's Dreamers, and Tomorrow's Leaders 2008
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It's definitely an ick-nastic day in Celebrity-Land.
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It's definitely an ick-nastic day in Celebrity-Land.
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In the decline of li&, he took the mo - nastic habit, in a Benedictine abbey, which he bad richly en - dowed, wheve be laboured to acpiate the tins of his secuhir Ufc.
Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical 1812
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what are the differences between nastic and curvature movements? en Español
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