Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the movements in growing organs produced by the passage through them of electric currents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology Any movement or alignment of an organism with respect to an
electric field
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Examples
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They give the quintessence of laboratory experiments as to what are the effects of different energies such as light (heliotropism), electricity (galvanotropism), gravity (geotropism), etc., in their reaction and influence upon the movements and actions of living organisms.
Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914
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