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photoepinasty en · NOUN

Etymology

From photo- + epinasty.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light.
    • a clear cut relation is shown between these photoresponses and the induced photoepinasty 1990, B. Millet, H. Greppin, Intra-and Intercellular Communications in Plants: