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Definition of Epinastic
1. a. A term applied to that phase of vegetable growth in which an organ grows more rapidly on its upper than on its under surface. See Hyponastic.
Definition of Epinastic
1. Adjective. of, or relating to epinasty ¹
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Definition of Epinastic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Epinastic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Epinastic
Literary usage of Epinastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1900)
"... similarity of their movements with those of ordinary plants; increased
amplitude ; occasional points of difference—epinastic growth of young ..."
2. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1890)
"... epinastic, their renewed growth under the influence of light is necessarily
epinastic also. The author then adduces a number of observations made on ..."
3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"If separated mid-ribs of leaves are fixed horizontally in wet sand, so that the
median plane lies horizontal, the epinastic curvature will take place ..."
4. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"... the horizontal cannot be taken as a measure of this relative sensitiveness,
for the effect of light upon it is probably twofold, photo-epinastic and ..."
5. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"Not infrequently it happens that the epinastic out- curvature is not completed
in one movement, but that a more vigorous depression alternates with a ..."
6. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"... or notably in the roots of Parkia Africana, may be mentioned, but there the
excessive thickening is practically wholly epinastic. ..."
7. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"... show at first a radial condition of the wood, whilst later it is epinastic
and finally is ... then become epinastic, and finally ..."
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