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plagiotropous, a. Bot.|pleɪdʒɪˈɒtrəpəs, ˌpleɪdʒɪəˈtrəʊpəs|
[ad. G. plagiotrop (see plagiotropic a.), f. plagio- + Gr. τρόπος turning + -ous.]
= plagiotropic a. So plagioˈtropously adv.; plagiˈotropy, the condition of plant organs growing in this way.
1900I. B. Balfour tr. C. E. von Goebel's Organogr. Plants I. 67 It [sc. an organ] is plagiotropous if..it assumes an oblique direction to the horizontal plane. Ibid. 112 In the shade of woods of the natural habitat the plagiotropy and anisophylly may be more marked. Ibid. 113 Sympodial shoot-systems..growing plagiotropously. 1919Lunds Universitets Årsskrift N.F. Avd. II. XVI. ii. (title) The cause of plagiotropy in maritime shore plants. 1965Bell & Coombe tr. Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. 125 The radially symmetrical main axis..produces its more or less dorsiventral and plagiotropous side branches uniformly around the stem. |