traumatropism Biol.
(trɔːˈmætrəʊpɪz(ə)m)
Also traumatotropism.
[Short for *traumatotropism, f. Gr. τραῦµα wound, after geotropism, heliotropism, etc.]
A peculiar growth or curvature of an organism (esp. a plant) resulting from a wound. traumaˈtropic a., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of traumatropism.
| 1898 R. Beer in Nat. Science June 390 The latent period..can be greatly extended both in geotropism..and in traumatropism. Ibid., It [a seedling of Lupinus albus] at once executed a traumatropic curvature. 1965 Bell & Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. 380 Galvanotropism, traumatotropism and thermotropism..are possibly only special forms of chemotropism. |