apheliotropically
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From apheliotropic + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]apheliotropically (comparative more apheliotropically, superlative most apheliotropically)
- In an apheliotropic way; away from the sun.
- 1880, Charles Darwin, The Power of Movement in Plants:
- In the case of the radicles of Sinapis alba, sensitiveness to light also resides in the tip, which, when laterally illuminated, causes the adjoining part of the root to bend apheliotropically.
- 1982, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 901:
- It has been empirically found that the reflection ratio when apheliotropically (looking downsun) is ...
- 1994, Thomas Avena, Life sentences: writers, artists, and AIDS, page 111:
- Where the red moon, inches above our heads, Will exclude us from its light, apheliotropically, in the end.