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nyctinasty

nyctinasty noun: the movement of leaves or petals in response to darkness; the closing of a flower at night.

Noun

nyctinasty (uncountable)

  1. The movement of leaves or petals in response to darkness; the closing of a flower at night.

nyctinasty meaning in Malayalam

nyctinasty in Malayalam

നിദ്രാചലനം

Synonyms of nyctinasty

Origin of nyctinasty

From nycti- + -nasty. By surface analysis, nycti- + -nast + -y.

Words formed from nyctinasty

Questions about nyctinasty

What does nyctinasty mean?
Nyctinasty means the movement of leaves or petals in response to darkness; the closing of a flower at night.
What is nyctinasty in Malayalam?
Nyctinasty in Malayalam is നിദ്രാചലനം. See Nyctinasty meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is nyctinasty?
Nyctinasty is a noun.

Words near nyctinasty in the dictionary

  1. nyctibatrachids
  2. nyctibiid
  3. nyctibiids
  4. nyctinastic
  5. nyctinastism
  6. nyctinasty
  7. nyctipelagic
  8. nyctiphruretid
  9. nyctiphruretids
  10. nyctitheriid
  11. nyctitheriids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nyctinasty (page history and authors); nyctinasty (Malayalam 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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