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Apogeotropism

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  1. 1
    An apogeotropic tendency; the tendency to bend away from the ground. uncountable

    "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; for apogeotropism by itself can direct the seedling only blindly upwards."

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