Usually means: Response to stimuli in organisms.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. -tropism, tropism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tropism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tropism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -tropism, tropism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tropism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tropism, tropism: Wordnik
  7. -tropism, tropism: Wiktionary
  8. -tropism, tropism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. -tropism, tropism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tropism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. -tropism, tropism: Dictionary.com
  12. tropism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Tropism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  16. tropism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. tropism: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. -tropism: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. tropism: Encyclopedia

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  9. -tropism, tropism: Medical dictionary

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  1. tropism: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tropism)

noun:  (uncountable, biology) The turning of an organism (chiefly a plant) or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; (countable) an instance of this.
noun:  (countable, by extension, chiefly virology) A capability or tendency for a pathogen (chiefly a virus) to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism.
noun:  (countable, figurative) Of a person: an instinctive predilection or tendency; also (generally), a liking, a preference.

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