epinasticadj.
/ɛpɪˈnastɪk/ Botany.
Of the nature of, or influenced by, epinasty.
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1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 262 So young that their epinastic growth..overpowered every other kind of movement.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 857 As long as the organ grows most rapidly on the dorsal side, it may be termed, after de Vries, hyponastic; afterwards, when it grows most rapidly on the inner or upper side, epinastic.
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