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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Heliotropism
Synonyms for "heliotropism"
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French
1 entries- héliotropisme noun (the property of some plants of turning under the influence of light)
Georgian
1 entries- ჰელიოტროპიზმი noun (the property of some plants of turning under the influence of light)
Irish
1 entries- héileatrópacht noun (the property of some plants of turning under the influence of light)
Italian
1 entries- eliotropismo noun (the property of some plants of turning under the influence of light)
Portuguese
1 entries- heliotropismo noun (the property of some plants of turning under the influence of light)
Russian
1 entries- гелиотропи́зм noun (the property of some plants of turning under the influence of light)
Spanish
1 entries- heliotropismo noun (the property of some plants of turning under the influence of light)
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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 sky through an adaptation called heliotropism.
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