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NYCTITROPIC Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of NYCTITROPIC is exhibiting nyctitropism.
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NYCTITROPIC Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Nyctitropic definition: tending to assume at or just before nightfall positions unlike those maintained during the day, as the leaves or flowers of certain ...
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NYCTITROPIC definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
Botany tending to assume at or just before nightfall positions unlike those maintained during the day, as the leaves or flowers of certain plants.
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nyctitropic
nyctitropic, a. Bot. (nɪktɪˈtrɒpɪk) [f. nycti- + Gr. τρόπος turn; cf. geotropic, heliotropic.] Turning in a certain direction at night. So nyctitropism. (See quots.)1880 C. & F. Darwin Movem. Pl. 281 Nyctitropism and nyctitropic, i.e. night-turning, may be applied both to leaves and flowers,..but it...
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nyctitropic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Ancient Greek νύχτατροπικός (núkhtatropikós, literally “night-turning”). Adjective. edit. nyctitropic (not comparable). (botany) Turning or bending at ...
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nyctitropic, adj. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the adjective nyctitropic is in the 1880s. OED's earliest evidence for nyctitropic is from 1880, in a text by Charles Darwin, ...
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nyctinastic
nyctinastic, a. Bot. (nɪktɪˈnæstɪk) [a. G. nyctinastisch (W. Pfeffer Pflanzenphysiologie (ed. 2, 1904) II. xii. 476): see nycti- and nastic a.] Of the movements of flowers or leaves, caused by a regular cycle of changes in light and temperature. So nyctiˈnastism, ˈnyctinasty, movement of this kind. ...
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Nyctitropic : r/words - Reddit
A few weeks ago, in post about new words we'd seen recently I mentioned the Nystitropic from the play Eleemosynary.
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NYCTITROPISM Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Nyctitropism definition: a tendency of some plant parts to assume positions at night that are different from their daytime positions.
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nyctitropic - WordReference.com Dictionary of English
Botanytending to assume at or just before nightfall positions unlike those maintained during the day, as the leaves or flowers of certain plants. 1875–80; nycti ...
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How To Say Nyctitropic - YouTube
Learn how to say Nyctitropic with EmmaSaying free pronunciation tutorials. Definition and meaning can be found here: ...
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modified circumnutation: nyctitropic or sleep movements of leaves
It should be premised that the nyctitropic movements of leaves are easily affected by the conditions to which the plants have been subjected. If ...
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The Power of Movement in Plants
Mature Plants
Chapter 5: Modified Circumnutation: Climbing Plants; Epinastic and Hyponastic Movements
Chapter 6: Modified Circumnutation: Sleep or Nyctitropic Movements, Their Use: Sleep of Cotyledons
Chapter 7: Modified Circumnutation: Nyctitropic or Sleep Movements of Leaves
Chapter 8: Modified Circumnutation
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