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crescograph

crescograph noun: a device for measuring growth in plants.

Noun

crescograph (plural crescographs)

  1. A device for measuring growth in plants.
    • For the detection of variation of growth it was necessary to devise the extremely sensitive balanced crescograph.1920 February, Scientific American Monthly, page 120
    • The magnetic crescograph, invented by the famed Indian botanist, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, for this purpose, seems capable of magnifying the highest powers of the microscope a hundred thousand times.1920, Edward Jewitt Wheeler, “Are plant life and animal life essentially the same?”, in Current Opinion, volume 69, page 828

Forms of crescograph

pluralcrescographs

Origin of crescograph

Latin crēscō (“to grow”) + -graph

Questions about crescograph

What does crescograph mean?
Crescograph means a device for measuring growth in plants.
What part of speech is crescograph?
Crescograph is a noun.
What is the plural of crescograph?
The plural of crescograph is crescographs.

Words near crescograph in the dictionary

  1. Cresci
  2. Crescis
  3. crescive
  4. crescively
  5. Cresco
  6. crescograph
  7. crescographic
  8. crescographs
  9. crese
  10. cresegol
  11. Cresencia Village

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