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Definition of Statolith
1. Noun. A specialized form of amyloplast involved in graviperception by plant roots and most invertebrates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Statolith
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Statolith
Literary usage of Statolith
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"statolith. This statocyst is innervated by tbe outer nerve ring. There appears
to be a very ... The absence of a stalk supporting the statolith and the ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1905)
"Take the statolith theory first. There undoubtedly are heavy bodies in cells ;
for instance, certain loose, movable starch- grains. ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"Are there any general considerations which can help us to decide for or against
the statolith theory? I think there are—namely, (1) analogy with the ..."
4. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"This body would correspond to the statolith of the crayfish, and we may also ...
If the statolith affects the intermediate limit between the regions which ..."
5. A Text-book of the Principles of Animal Histology by Ulric Dahlgren, William Allison Kepner (1908)
"Lying in the cavity, and just clear of the long sensory hairs, is the round
statolith which has an organic basis, probably of chitin, that is impregnated ..."
6. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1916)
"The writer, however, has no direct evidence, at present, in favor of the statolith
theory. He is led to accept it largely by the method of exclusion. ..."
7. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Ot, statolith in the interior of the eta, which is filled with liquid. Wz, Hair
cells on the inner surface of the wall. Hz and Cz, Cells with short bristles ..."
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