Definition of Chemotropisms

1. chemotropism [n] - See also: chemotropism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemotropisms

chemotherapists
chemotherapy
chemotherapy drug sensitivity test
chemotic
chemotoxic
chemotoxicity
chemotransmitter
chemotransport
chemotroph
chemotrophic
chemotrophically
chemotrophs
chemotrophy
chemotropic
chemotropism
chemotropisms (current term)
chemotype
chemotypes
chemovar
chemovars
chemtrail
chemtrails
chemurgic
chemurgies
chemurgy
chemy
chenar
chenars
chenet
chenets

Literary usage of Chemotropisms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. General Psychology by Walter Samuel Hunter (1919)
"(Accordingly, we are able to call no one sense the most primitive.) Tropisms are classified according to the stimuli that arouse them as: chemotropisms, ..."

2. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"A second class of chemotropisms is seen in the turning of pollen-tubes towards the stigma of a flower.* When pollen is sown upon a plate of agar-agar or ..."

3. Experimental Morphology by Charles Benedict Davenport (1899)
"A second class of chemotropisms is seen in the turning of pollen-tubes towards the stigma of a flower.* When pollen is sown upon a plate of agar-agar or ..."

4. Evolution and the War by Peter Chalmers Mitchell (1915)
"On the whole the chemotropisms are such that protoplasm shrinks from what is harmful and towards what is helpful. If a crowd of the slipper-shaped animal- ..."

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