Crossword-Solution: HELIOTROPIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Heliotropic | a. | Manifesting heliotropism; turning toward the sun. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “HELIOTROPIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PROPERTY of turning away or towards light/sunlight | 1 answer |
| TURNING away from light/sunlight | 1 answer |
| TURNING towards light/sunlight | 1 answer |
| phototropic | 1 answer |
| turning away from light | 1 answer |
| turning towards light | 1 answer |
| turning | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
EMOTNOI
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with HELIOTROPIC (5)
Marine copepods can be made positively heliotropic by the lowering of the temperature alone, or by a sudden increase in the concentration of the sea-water.
When, in the morning, the absorption of carbon-dioxide by the green algae begins again and the temperature of the water rises, the animals lose their positive heliotropism, and slowly sink down or become negatively heliotropic and migrate actively downwards.
The writer observed many years ago that winged male and female ants are positively helioptropic and that their heliotropic sensitiveness increases and reaches its maximum towards the period of nuptial flight.
Since the workers show no heliotropism it looks as if an internal secretion from the sexual glands were the cause of their heliotropic sensitiveness.
Kellogg has observed that bees also become intensely positively heliotropic at the period of their wedding flight, in fact so much so that by letting light fall into the observation hive from above, the bees are prevented from leaving the hive through the exit at the lower end.