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chemotropism

chemotropism noun: the movement or growth of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus.

Noun

chemotropism (countable and uncountable, plural chemotropisms)

  1. The movement or growth of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus
    Synonyms:
    chemotaxis

chemotropism meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

chemotropism in Tamil

வேதி நாட்டம், இரசாயனத்தூண்டுதிருப்பம்

chemotropism in Tagalog

movement or growth of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus
kapbaling

Synonyms of chemotropism

Forms of chemotropism

pluralchemotropisms

Origin of chemotropism

From chemo- + -tropism.

Questions about chemotropism

What does chemotropism mean?
Chemotropism means the movement or growth of an organism in response to a chemical stimulus.
What is chemotropism in Tamil?
Chemotropism in Tamil is வேதி நாட்டம், இரசாயனத்தூண்டுதிருப்பம். See Chemotropism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chemotropism?
Chemotropism is a noun.
What is the plural of chemotropism?
The plural of chemotropism is chemotropisms.

Words near chemotropism in the dictionary

  1. chemotrophically
  2. chemotrophs
  3. chemotrophy
  4. chemotropic
  5. chemotropically
  6. chemotropism
  7. chemotropisms
  8. chemotrypsin
  9. chemotype
  10. chemotypes
  11. chemotypic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chemotropism (page history and authors); chemotropism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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