tropism

/troh-piz-uhm/US // ˈtroʊ pɪz əm //UK // (ˈtrəʊpɪzəm) //

倾向主义,滋养主义,倾向性,滋生主义

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Biology.
- : an orientation of an organism to an external stimulus, as light, especially by growth rather than by movement.

In those two books, the existential shows itself gradually—breast cancer in the first, a physiological tropism in the second.
Still, Cuccinelli has shown his own tropism toward the kindness of strangers.
This may be a tropism (stereotropism) or it may be a mere surface tension phenomenon.
It's the same old disregard, or it's the same old psycho-tropism, or process of assimilation.
We shall in the succeeding series of papers deal with the subject of tropism in general.
The workers, on the other hand, who have to be in and out of the nest about their business, do not have this tropism.
Nevertheless this is the psycho-tropism of science to all "thunderstones" said to have fallen luminously.