Heliotropism

Besides the algae in their skin, they had altered hormone levels with predispositions toward heliotropism and nudity, plus numerous other "improvements." ❋ Unknown (2004)

His very geographical situation was sufficient to turn the mind towards him, but the particular reason for that heliotropism on the part of his feminine neighbors was that he was an easy man for a woman to ask. ❋ Charles D. Stewart (N/A)

Since plants possess no nerves, this identity of animal with plant heliotropism can offer but one inference -- these heliotropic effects must depend upon conditions which are common to both animals and plants. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

I tiptoed religiously by it, went on up to the big house where the three women slept, as if drawn to their abode by a sort of heliotropism. ❋ Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 (1922)

They give the quintessence of laboratory experiments as to what are the effects of different energies such as light (heliotropism), electricity (galvanotropism), gravity (geotropism), etc., in their reaction and influence upon the movements and actions of living organisms. ❋ Alfred Korzybski (1914)

Are we to suppose that the upper half of the body or eye had a positive heliotropism and the lower half a negative heliotropism? ❋ J. T. Cunningham (1897)

The sensitiveness belonging to living substance, known by the names heliotropism, chemotropism, etc., is like a sketch of sensation and of the reactions following it; organic memory is the basis and the obliterated form of conscious memory. ❋ Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron (1877)

Vienna (who has lately published a great book on heliotropism) finds that an intermittent light, say of 20 minutes, produces the same effect as a continuous light of, say 60 m. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

Wiesner's papers on heliotropism are in the "Denkschriften" of the Vienna Academy, Volumes ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

And, yes, many sunflowers do follow the sun in the bud stage, with the young blooms turning east to west daily in a process called heliotropism. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Himawari prototype is a machine plant that imitates heliotropism, the diurnal movement of flowers tracking the sun as it moves across the sky. ❋ Tim Hornyak (2009)

As flowers turn toward the sun, by dint of a secret heliotropism the past strives to turn toward the sun which is rising in the sky of history. ❋ Unknown (2008)

heliotropism - i would argue it's just a different course. there should be no right or wrong here.. : i agree with your sense of adventure granny - ah, and maybe the most adventurous one is always the 'right' choice! ❋ Floreta (2009)

_heliotropism_, and there are many other instances of such attraction. ❋ William Thomas Councilman (N/A)

It is surely worth while to study this literature, and in all its twists and turns to admire the heliotropism of the German ideal and the importance which our German literature has won as a mediator, an experimenter, and a model for that world-literature, the outline of which the prophetic eye of the greatest German poet was the first to discern, and his hand, equally expert in scientific and poetic creation, the first to describe. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)

Romanes 'paper on the effect of intermittent light on heliotropism was the "Proc. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)