Crossword-Solution: NYCTITROPISM
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| the assumption by plants of certain positions at night, esp ones different from daytime positions | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
WLOPAL
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Sentences with NYCTITROPISM (2)
The sleep or nyctitropism of leaves is a large subject, and we think that the most convenient plan will be first to give a brief account of the position which leaves assume at night, and of the advantages apparently thus gained.
From the facts and considerations now advanced we may conclude that nyctitropism, or the sleep of leaves and cotyledons, is merely a modification of their ordinary circumnutating movement, regulated in its period and amplitude by the alternations of light and darkness.