Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or exhibiting paraheliotropism.
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Examples
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The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees.
Ulysses 2003
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The influence of gaslight or electric light on the growth of adjoining paraheliotropic trees.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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It is curious that a hybrid Hedychium in my garden shows scarcely any trace of this paraheliotropism, while both the parent species are very paraheliotropic.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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This Phyllanthus agrees with Cassia not only in its manner of sleeping, but also by its leaves being paraheliotropic.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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