Definition of Heliotropisms

1. heliotropism [n] - See also: heliotropism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heliotropisms

heliotherapeutic
heliotherapies
heliotherapy
heliothermic
heliothid
heliothids
heliothis moth
heliotomography
heliotrope
heliotrope cyanosis
heliotroper
heliotropes
heliotropic
heliotropin
heliotropism
heliotropisms (current term)
heliotype
heliotyped
heliotypes
heliotypic
heliotypies
heliotyping
heliotypy
heliox
heliozoan
heliozoans
heliozoic
helipad
helipads
heliport

Literary usage of Heliotropisms

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

1. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"... we must also declare the direction of the wave the cause of such phenomena as heliotropisms and the special modes of cell division these set up. ..."

2. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt, Walter Taylor Marvin, William Pepperell Montague, Ralph Barton Perry, Walter B. Pitkin, Edward Gleason Spaulding (1912)
"... we must also declare the direction of the wave the cause of such phenomena as heliotropisms and the special modes of cell division these set up. ..."

3. Jacques Loeb: His Science and Social Activism and Their Philosophical by Charles Rasmussen, Rick Tilman (1998)
"... (movement in relation to gravity) and heliotropisms (in relation to sunlight) in insects and their possible role in the behavior of higher animals. ..."

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