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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a tendency to turn away from the sun or the light: opposed to heliotropism (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.
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- noun The habit of
bending away fromsunlight , as someplants do.
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jmjarmstrong commented on the word apheliotropism
JM reckons that there has been so much rain that there is no longer any apheliotropism at all and everything is going everywhere.
December 28, 2010
jmjarmstrong commented on the word apheliotropism
JM is sad that apheliotropism just won’t face up to it.
April 25, 2011