Usually means: Turning away from the sun.
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  1. apheliotropism: Merriam-Webster
  2. apheliotropism: Collins English Dictionary
  3. apheliotropism: Wordnik
  4. apheliotropism: Wiktionary
  5. apheliotropism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. apheliotropism: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Apheliotropism, apheliotropism: Dictionary.com
  8. Apheliotropism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. apheliotropism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Apheliotropism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. apheliotropism: FreeDictionary.org
  12. apheliotropism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. apheliotropism: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (apheliotropism)

▸ noun:  (botany) the tendency to bend away from sunlight, as some plants do; negative phototropism

Similar:
paraheliotropism, diaheliotropism, aphercotropism, selenotropism, anemotropism, orthogravitropism, heliotrope, cephalotropism, diageotropism, agravitropism, more...

Opposite:
periheliotropism, heliotropism

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Similar:
paraheliotropism, diaheliotropism, aphercotropism, selenotropism, anemotropism, orthogravitropism, heliotrope, cephalotropism, diageotropism, agravitropism, more...

Opposite:
periheliotropism, heliotropism



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