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tropics

NOUN
torrid zone
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Hafer said there is some "anecdotal evidence" that the location of the tropisms of SARS-CoV-2 have changed over time with different variants.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2022

Some plant responses to environmental factors are so quick that they cannot be called tropisms.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

The result can be overload, paint's equivalent to the excess tropisms in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's prose.

From Time Magazine Archive

They move by the tropisms of power and fear in a world of reaching hands and rapped knuckles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Both of these types of reaction are tropisms merely; but the former are labile, conditionable; whereas the latter cannot be modified.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various



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