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TROPHOTROPISM

\tɹˈɒfətɹˌə͡ʊpɪzəm], \tɹˈɒfətɹˌə‍ʊpɪzəm], \t_ɹ_ˈɒ_f_ə_t_ɹ_ˌəʊ_p_ɪ_z_ə_m]\

Definitions of TROPHOTROPISM

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2011 - English Dictionary Database
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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an orienting response to food

2006 - WordNet 3.0
By Princeton University

an orienting response to food

2011 - English Dictionary Database
By DataStellar Co., Ltd

A kind of chemotaxis for the nutritive matter of cells.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A tendency to motion induced in the particles of protoplasm by the presence of nutritive material near it. [Gr.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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