thigmotropism in English

noun
1
the turning or bending of a plant or other organism in response to a touch stimulus.
More recently, however, the Arabidopsis root movements were reinterpreted as the combined effect of essentially three processes, circumnuation, gravitropism and negative thigmotropism .

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