Crossword-Solution: TROPISM
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| TROPISM | anagram | IMPORTS |
We have 8 clues for the answer “TROPISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Plant tendency to grow toward light | 1 answer |
| Plant's movement | 1 answer |
| Reflex reaction | 1 answer |
| Response to a stimulus, biologically | 1 answer |
| Tendency to turn, as a flower toward light. | 1 answer |
| Turning towards the sun, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Why plants turn to the sun | 1 answer |
| tendency of a plant or animal to turn in response to an external stimulus | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TROPISM (5)
Hackers display an intense tropism towards oriental cuisine, especially Chinese, and especially of the spicier varieties such as Szechuan and Hunan.
Driesch has found that a tropism underlies the arrangement of the skeleton in the pluteus larvae of the sea-urchin.
The tropism concerned is the food tropism, but what is gained by calling the search for food common to all active animals a tropism, and how is the search for food before the food is perceptible to the senses, before it can act as a stimulus on a food-sensitive substance in the body, to be compared to a tropism at all? Loeb undertakes to prove that the organism as a whole acts automatically according to physicochemical laws.
And Leroy believes further that it isn't an intelligent arrangement--not on the part of the barrels, at least--but that it's been done for so many thousands of generations that it's become instinctive--a tropism--just like the actions of ants and bees.
His psycho-tropism was to respond to all reports of carbonaceous matter falling from the sky, by saying that this damned matter had been deposited upon things of the chosen by impact with this earth.
Quotes with TROPISM (2)
Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zero control. This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.
Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1957–2015).