| 单词 | sleep movement | 
| 释义 | > as lemmassleep movement   sleep movement  n. Botany a movement of a part of a plant, esp. a leaf, that occurs each nightfall and, in reverse, each daybreak. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > 			[noun]		 > nastic movement > sleep movement sleep movement1880 1880    C. Darwin  & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 262  				The periodical movements of leaves thus provided have generally been amplified into so-called sleep-movements. 1906    A. J. Ewart tr.  W. Pfeffer Physiol. Plants III. ii. 101  				There is no reason for restricting the term nyctinastic to pronounced sleep-movements. 1965    P. Bell  & D. Coombe tr.  Strasburger's Textbk. Bot. 		(new ed.)	 391  				Mimosa also shows sleep movements, and at nightfall appears almost as if stimulated by mechanical shock. < as lemmas | 
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