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Definition of Nastic
1. Adjective. Relates to the response of a plant to a stimulus that does not depend on the location of the stimulus. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nastic
1. pertaining to an automatic response of plants [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nastic
Literary usage of Nastic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"Typical nastic movements of variation are shown by stomata ; the structural ...
In other nastic movements, as in the case of the stomata, light and heat, ..."
2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"Many of the problems of regeneration are complicated by these phenomena of
correlation, if they are not wholly determined by them. 4. nastic CURVATURES ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1817)
"30., nastic habits, 6ne of them a female, Abbey-gardens at Shrewsbury (see inches.
The arches on the Southern J. Oratory, Or Stone Pulpit, io (he monk: the ..."
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