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Definition of Epinasty
1. Noun. (botany) the downward curvature of leaves etc due to differential growth rates ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epinasty
1. a downward bending of plant parts [n -TIES]
Medical Definition of Epinasty
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Epinasty
Literary usage of Epinasty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"If a leaf exhibits curvatures by reason of greater growth at the upper surface,
it is said to display epinasty, while if the greater growth is at the lower ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"... do not know the causes which bring about the epinasty and ... and ' hypotrophy'
for epinasty and ..."
3. The Response of Plants to Illuminating Gas by Sarah Lucinda Doubt (1917)
"With ethylene, 5 ppm caused some leaf fall, epinasty was marked, ... 3, 4); 2
ppm caused epinasty but no leaf fall; 0.2 and o.1 ppm still caused epinasty. ..."
4. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Phenomena of the same kind are produced by a combination of epinasty with helio-
tropism, if the separated mid-rib is fixed vertically in wet sand in a ..."
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