📚 noun • entry_id 19158
heliotropism
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heliotropismo
The property of some plants of turning under the influence of light; either positively (towards the light) or negatively (away from the light).
A field of young sunflowers will slowly rotate from east to west during the course of a sunny day, each leaf seeking out as much sunlight as possible as the sun moves across the sk…
As soon as the faintest ray of light reaches a seedling, heliotropism will guide it through any crack in the soil, or through an entangled mass of overlying vegetation; […]
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