Meanings
- uncountablebiologyAn apogeotropic tendency; the tendency to bend away from the ground.
As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; for apogeotropism by itself can direct the seedling only blindly upwards.
1880 November 6, Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin, chapter XII, in The Power of Movement in Plants, page 555Synonyms: zenotropism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn apogeotropic tendency; the tendency to bend away from the ground.
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