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Definition of Heliotropic
1. a. Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun.
Definition of Heliotropic
1. Adjective. exhibiting heliotropism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heliotropic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Heliotropic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heliotropic
Literary usage of Heliotropic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"This may be explained by an absence of heliotropic sensitiveness, but in some
cases it is due to the fact that the organs ..."
2. Forced Movements, Tropisms, and Animal Conduct by Jacques Loeb (1918)
"CHAPTER XI THE RELATIVE heliotropic EFFICIENCY OF LIGHT OF DIFFERENT WAVE LENGTHS 1.
The validity of the Bunsen-Roscoe law for the helio- tropic reactions ..."
3. The Dynamics of Living Matter by Jacques Loeb (1906)
"After having begun to eat, their heliotropic sensitiveness diminishes or ...
At the time of sexual maturity the males and females are markedly heliotropic;* ..."
4. Studies in General Physiology by Jacques Loeb (1905)
"I think also that I have discovered a difference in positively and in negatively
heliotropic animals with regard to the liberation of energy. ..."
5. The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1900)
"Distinction between heliotropism and the effects of light on the periodicity of
the movements of leaves—heliotropic movements of Beta, Solanum, Zea, ..."
6. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1897)
"The animals which live free at the surface of the ocean, as far as I have been
able to examine them, are all positively heliotropic. Those among them which ..."
7. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Julius Sachs (1887)
"In addition to these reflections, also, I came to the conclusion that in heliotropic
curvatures the important point is not at all that the one side of the ..."
8. Practical Plant Physiology: An Introduction to Original Research for by Wilhelm Detmer, S. A. (Samuel Albert) Moor (1898)
"heliotropic Nutations. Many plant structures, especially young stems, when exposed
to one-sided illumination, bend towards the rays of light; ..."
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