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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The state of being sensitive to or irritated by light.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a term proposed by Sachs for the peculiar condition in which the protoplasm is capable of exhibiting irritability induced in certain plant-organs by exposure to light of a certain intensity.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to light.
  • noun (Physiol.) An irritable condition of protoplasm, resulting in movement, due to a certain intensity of light.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun sensitivity to, or irritation caused by light

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