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traumatropism Biol.|trɔːˈmætrəʊpɪz(ə)m|
Also traumatotropism.
[Short for *traumatotropism, f. Gr. τραῦµα wound, after geotropism, heliotropism, etc.]
A peculiar growth or curvature of an organism (esp. a plant) resulting from a wound. traumaˈtropic a., of, pertaining to, or of the nature of traumatropism.
1898R. Beer in Nat. Science June 390 The latent period..can be greatly extended both in geotropism..and in traumatropism. Ibid., It [a seedling of Lupinus albus] at once executed a traumatropic curvature. 1965Bell & Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. 380 Galvanotropism, traumatotropism and thermotropism..are possibly only special forms of chemotropism. |