Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Tropism |
TropismNoun1. An involuntary orienting response; positive or negative reaction to a stimulus source. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Tropism \Tro"pism\, noun. [Greek expression turning, to turn -ism.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | The growth response of part of an organism to a directional, external stimulus causing it to move, turn or bend. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | Directed movements and orientations found in plants, such as the turning of the sunflower to face the sun. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Tropism |
| Specialty definitions using "tropism": CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes ♦ oriental food. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Tropism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tropism" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tropism | 24 |
plant tropism | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tropism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tropisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tropisme, groeibeweging bij planten onder invloed en in de richting van uitwendige factoren. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tropismi (viral tropism), suuntautumistaipuminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tropisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tropismus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | τροπισμόσ, τροπισμός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כמי"ות (affinity, longing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tropismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 向性 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うせい (aggression, calibration, composition, constancy, correction, correction of press, fairness, fixed star, future generations, future life, hardness, impartiality, justice, life to come, loud or high-pitched voice, made of steel, matchless, offensive, organization, posterity, proofreading, public welfare, rebirth, rectification, regeneration, rehabilitation, reorganization, resuscitation, revision, unparalleled, Welfare Ministry, younger people). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opismtray tropismo (lodging). (various references) тропизм. (various references) tropismo. (various references) tropism. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tropism": tropisms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "tropism": anisotropism, atropism, chemotropism, geotropism, heliotropism, hydrotropism, phototropism, thermotropism, thigmotropism. (additional references) | |
Words containing "tropism": anisotropisms, atropisms, chemotropisms, geotropisms, heliotropisms, hydrotropisms, phototropisms, thermotropisms, thigmotropisms. (additional references) | |
| |
"Tropism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Trofim, trolism, trophism, tropins, tropus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tropism" (pronounced 'Tro"pism'): Papism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: imports. | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-o-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: import, impost, porism, primos, prosit, ripost, tripos, tromps. | |
-2 letters: moist, morts, omits, ports, posit, primo, prims, prism, proms, prost, riots, romps, rotis, spirt, sport, sprit, stirp, stomp, storm, strip, strop, tiros, topis, torsi, trims, trios, trips, trois, tromp. | |
-3 letters: imps, mirs, miso, mist, mops, mors, mort, most, mots, omit, opts, orts, piso, pits. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-o-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: atropism, imposter, impostor, pastromi, protiums, tropisms. | |
+2 letters: atropisms, impactors, importers, imposters, impostors, imposture, misreport, orpiments, pastromis, peristome, pogromist, prostomia, protamins, reimports, temporise, trimorphs. | |
+3 letters: ametropias, compositor, geotropism, imperators, importunes, impostures, impromptus, mentorship, metropolis, misreports, multisport, optimizers, outpromise, patriotism, periosteum, peristomes, pictograms, pogromists, premoisten, prismatoid, promotions, prostatism, prostomial, prostomium, protamines, resumption, semitropic, spirometer, spirometry, temporised, temporises, temporizes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
