"tropism" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɹəʊpɪz(ə)m/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈtɹoʊˌpɪzəm/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-tropism.wav Forms: tropisms [plural]
Etymology: From -tropism (suffix meaning ‘growth towards; movement, turning’) (possibly based on geotropism and heliotropism), from Latin tropus + English -ism (suffix forming nouns of action, process, or result). Tropus is derived from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a turn; a manner, style, way; figure of speech, trope; etc.”), from τρέπω (trépō, “to turn; to divert; to rotate or change orientation”) (from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns of result or abstract nouns of action). Sense 1 (“turning of an organism or part of an organism towards or away from a stimulus”) is modelled after German Tropismus. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*trep-}}, {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{der|en|la|tropus}} Latin tropus, {{glossary|noun}} noun, {{der|en|grc|τρόπος|t=a turn; a manner, style, way; figure of speech, trope; etc.}} Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a turn; a manner, style, way; figure of speech, trope; etc.”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*trep-|t=to turn}} Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”), {{glossary|abstract noun}} abstract noun, {{langname|en}} English, {{senseno|en|biology|uc=1}} Sense 1, {{cog|de|Tropismus}} German Tropismus Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} tropism (countable and uncountable, plural tropisms)
  1. (uncountable, biology) The turning of an organism (chiefly a plant) or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; (countable) an instance of this. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Biology Translations (turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this): tropisme (Afrikaans), انتحاء (Arabic), տրոպիզմներ (tropizmner) (Armenian), tropizm (Azerbaijani), тропизм (tropizm) (Bashkir), tropismo [masculine] (Basque), тропи́зъм (tropízǎm) (Bulgarian), ထရိုပီဇင်း (hta.ruipijang:) (Burmese), tropisme (Catalan), 向性 (xiàngxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), tropismus (Czech), tropie (Dutch), planta moviĝo (Esperanto), tropism (Estonian), tropismi (Finnish), tropisme [masculine] (French), Tropismus (German), Pflanzenbewegung (note: of plants) (German), τροπισμός (tropismós) [masculine] (Greek), טרופיזם (Hebrew), tropizmus (Hungarian), leitni [feminine] (Icelandic), tropismo (Ido), tropisme (Indonesian), trópacht [feminine] (Irish), tropismo [masculine] (Italian), trofismo [masculine] (Italian), 屈性 (kussei) (alt: くっせい) (Japanese), тропизм (tropizm) (Kazakh), 굴성 (gulseong) (alt: 屈性) (Korean), тропизм (tropizm) (Kyrgyz), tropizmas (Lithuanian), тропи́зам (tropízam) [masculine] (Macedonian), tropisme (Malay), അഭിഗതി (abhigati) (Malayalam), tropisme (Occitan), گرایش (Persian), tropizm [masculine] (Polish), tropismo [masculine] (Portuguese), tropism [neuter] (Romanian), тропи́зм (tropízm) [masculine] (Russian), тропѝзам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tropìzam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tropismo [masculine] (Spanish), tropism (Swedish), திருப்ப அசைவு (tiruppa acaivu) (Tamil), การเบนของพืช (Thai), тропізм (tropizm) (Ukrainian), رخیت (Urdu), tropizm (Uzbek), tropedd [masculine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-tropism-en-noun-en:biology Topics: biology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this': 77 22 1
  2. (countable, by extension, chiefly virology) A capability or tendency for a pathogen (chiefly a virus) to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism. Tags: broadly, countable Categories (topical): Virology Translations (capability or tendency for a pathogen to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism): tropismi (Finnish), тропи́зам (tropízam) [masculine] (Macedonian)
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microbiology, natural-sciences, virology Disambiguation of 'capability or tendency for a pathogen to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism': 21 73 7
  3. (countable, figurative) Of a person: an instinctive predilection or tendency; also (generally), a liking, a preference. Tags: countable, figuratively Translations (of a person: instinctive predilection or tendency): tropismi (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-tropism-en-noun-KKh6VIS3 Disambiguation of 'of a person: instinctive predilection or tendency': 1 11 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: tropistic Related terms: tropic, -tropy (alt: and its deratives)

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Phototropic orientation of an embryo plant in zero gravity […] On earth, a germinated seedling can be placed in any position and the radicle will invariably turn the embryo plant \"downward\" and the hypocotle \"upward\". This is because positive root tropism toward gravity and negative stem tropism away from gravity. In the absence of gravity, will the plumules and the stem of the embryo plant reacting positively to phototropism guide the entire plant including the root system for its directional orientation?",
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          "text": "Tropism means that the roots or branches move by turning towards or turning away from environmental stimuli. We have implemented this behavior in the roots of the plantoid [i.e., a robot or synthetic organism designed to act like a plant], integrating sensors and using an adaptive material for growing.",
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          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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          "code": "ga",
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          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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          "word": "trópacht"
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          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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          "word": "tropismo"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
          "word": "屈性"
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          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
          "word": "тропизм"
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          "code": "ko",
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          "roman": "gulseong",
          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
          "word": "굴성"
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          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
          "word": "tropisme"
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          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "abhigati",
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          "text": "Studies similar to those describe above for cells cultivated in vitro were performed using homogenates of tissues and organs from humans and rhesus monkeys to investigate tissue tropisms in susceptible species […] McLaren (personal communication) found an excellent correlation between poliovirus tissue tropisms and presence or absence of receptor activity in human and rhesus tissues and organs.",
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          "text": "Virus tropism can be defined at two levels: host tropism being the range of host species that a virus can productively infect, and tissue tropism reflecting the particular tissues or organs within the host that are the site(s) of virus replication. […] The primary determinant of virus tropism is the presence on the cell surface of a suitable receptor which the virus can utilize to gain entry to the cell.",
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          "text": "HBLV [human B-cell lymphotropic virus] has a broad range of cell tropisms, and it infects B cells, T cells, megakaryocytes, and glioblastoma cells.",
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          "text": "A very wide spectrum of tissue tropism among the animal adenoviruses is evident, e.g. porcine adenovirus type 3 shows a tropism for columnar epithelial cells whereas bovine adenoviruses prefer capillary endothelial cells; however, it is not clear how far tissue tropism relates to pathogenesis and disease.",
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          "text": "Orthoreovirus has primary tropisms associated with its acquisition and transmission as an upper respiratory infection and those include the facial sinuses, lungs, pharynx, and tonsils, presumably its tropism towards the intestines represents a secondary tropism (assuming that fecal-oral transmission does not also represent a primary route of disease spread, in which case the intestines would have to be considered a primary tropism), […]",
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          "text": "Orientation and tropism are synonymous expressions; that gatherings [of Paramecium] take place is a consequence of the orientation, and therefore throws no light whatever upon the tropisms. (Gatherings, however, are not always indicative of a tropism, i.e., of an orientation, but may be due to kinesis […]",
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          "text": "Phototropic orientation of an embryo plant in zero gravity […] On earth, a germinated seedling can be placed in any position and the radicle will invariably turn the embryo plant \"downward\" and the hypocotle \"upward\". This is because positive root tropism toward gravity and negative stem tropism away from gravity. In the absence of gravity, will the plumules and the stem of the embryo plant reacting positively to phototropism guide the entire plant including the root system for its directional orientation?",
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          "ref": "2021, Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen, Barbara Mazzolai, quoting Barbara Mazzolai, “Interview with Barbara Mazzolai: Plants, Plantoids, and Active Materials”, in Peter Fratzl, Michael Friedman, Karin Krauthausen, Wolfgang Schäffner, editors, Active Materials, Berlin; Boston, Mass.: Walter De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 139:",
          "text": "Tropism means that the roots or branches move by turning towards or turning away from environmental stimuli. We have implemented this behavior in the roots of the plantoid [i.e., a robot or synthetic organism designed to act like a plant], integrating sensors and using an adaptive material for growing.",
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          "ref": "1964, J. J. Holland, “Viruses in Animals and in Cell Culture”, in Joan Taylor, editor, Microbial Behaviour, ‘in Vivo’ and ‘in Vitro’: Fourteenth Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology Held at the Royal Institution, London, April 1964, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press for the Society for General Microbiology, →OCLC, page 271:",
          "text": "Studies similar to those describe above for cells cultivated in vitro were performed using homogenates of tissues and organs from humans and rhesus monkeys to investigate tissue tropisms in susceptible species […] McLaren (personal communication) found an excellent correlation between poliovirus tissue tropisms and presence or absence of receptor activity in human and rhesus tissues and organs.",
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          "ref": "1977, D. J. Evans, “Picornavirus Receptors, Tropism and Pathogenesis”, in M. A. McCrae, J. R. Saunders, C. J. Smyth, N. D. Stow, editors, Molecular Aspects of Host–pathogen Interactions: Fifty-fifth Symposium of the Society for General Microbiology Held at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, March 1997, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press for the Society for General Microbiology, →ISBN, page 23:",
          "text": "Virus tropism can be defined at two levels: host tropism being the range of host species that a virus can productively infect, and tissue tropism reflecting the particular tissues or organs within the host that are the site(s) of virus replication. […] The primary determinant of virus tropism is the presence on the cell surface of a suitable receptor which the virus can utilize to gain entry to the cell.",
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          "text": "HBLV [human B-cell lymphotropic virus] has a broad range of cell tropisms, and it infects B cells, T cells, megakaryocytes, and glioblastoma cells.",
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          "text": "A very wide spectrum of tissue tropism among the animal adenoviruses is evident, e.g. porcine adenovirus type 3 shows a tropism for columnar epithelial cells whereas bovine adenoviruses prefer capillary endothelial cells; however, it is not clear how far tissue tropism relates to pathogenesis and disease.",
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          "text": "The capacity of a virus to selectively infect cells in particular organs is referred to as tropism[…]. Viral tropism depends on viral and host factors.",
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          "text": "Orthoreovirus has primary tropisms associated with its acquisition and transmission as an upper respiratory infection and those include the facial sinuses, lungs, pharynx, and tonsils, presumably its tropism towards the intestines represents a secondary tropism (assuming that fecal-oral transmission does not also represent a primary route of disease spread, in which case the intestines would have to be considered a primary tropism), […]",
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          "text": "It is reasonable to suppose that tropism will be less conspicuous in animals which are endowed with intelligence than in others; but well-marked tropisms are still to be found among the higher animals. Gregarious animals have a positive tropism toward the members of their own flock; the dog has a negative tropism toward his own kind and a positive tropism toward mankind.",
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      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "տրոպիզմներ"
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      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "ထရိုပီဇင်း"
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      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "向性"
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      "word": "tropie"
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      "word": "planta moviĝo"
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      "tags": [
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      "word": "tropisme"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "Tropismus"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "of plants",
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      "word": "Pflanzenbewegung"
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      "word": "טרופיזם"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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      "code": "ga",
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      "word": "trópacht"
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      "code": "it",
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      "word": "trofismo"
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      "alt": "くっせい",
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      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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      "alt": "屈性",
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      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "굴성"
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      "word": "tropizmas"
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      "code": "mk",
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      "code": "ms",
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      "roman": "abhigati",
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      "word": "അഭിഗതി"
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      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
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      "code": "fa",
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      "word": "گرایش"
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    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "tropism"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tropízm",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тропи́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тропѝзам"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tropìzam"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tropismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "tropism"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "tiruppa acaivu",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "திருப்ப அசைவு"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "การเบนของพืช"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tropizm",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "тропізм"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "رخیت"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "word": "tropizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tropedd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "capability or tendency for a pathogen to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism",
      "word": "tropismi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tropízam",
      "sense": "capability or tendency for a pathogen to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тропи́зам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of a person: instinctive predilection or tendency",
      "word": "tropismi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tropism"
}

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