trophotropism

noun

tro·​phot·​ro·​pism

trōˈfä‧trəˌpizəm

: a chemotropism in which food or a nutritive substance constitutes the orienting factor

Word History

Etymology

International Scientific Vocabulary troph- + -tropism

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