tropics
Example Sentences
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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
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They move by the tropisms of power and fear in a world of reaching hands and rapped knuckles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
Vocabulary lists containing tropics
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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Southeast Asia - Middle School
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Southeast Asia - High School
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