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geotropism (n.)
"growth downward," 1874, from
geo-
"earth" +
-trope
"a turn, direction" (see
trope
), translating German
Geotropismus
(1868), which was coined in 1868 by German botanist Albert Bernhard Frank (1839-1900). Related:
Geotropic
.
