| 单词 | tropism |
| 释义 | tropism (once / 135855 pages) n WORD FAMILY tropism: tropisms USAGE EXAMPLESDonald Trump, surprised that nuclear weapons are inappropriate to counterinsurgency, has a long history of irrepressible urges and tropisms. Wall Street Journal(Sep 23, 2016) Mrs. Clinton is heavily defended, mentally edits and re-edits every spontaneous comment, and has a tropism toward the unimaginative. Wall Street Journal(Jul 07, 2016) Contrast, first, Obama’s ingrained tropism toward the middle ground with Sanders’s call for political upheaval. Washington Post(Feb 12, 2016) n an involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source Hypo|Hyper ergotropism an affinity for work geotropisman orienting response to gravity heliotropisman orienting response to the sun meteortropisman effect of climate on biological processes (as the effect on joint pains etc.) neurotropisman affinity for neural tissues phototropisman orienting response to light trophotropisman orienting response to food thermotropisman orienting response to warmth reaction, response a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent |
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