apheliotropic

== English == === Etymology === From apo- +‎ heliotropic. === Adjective === apheliotropic (not comparable) Turning away from the sun; said of leaves, etc. 1880, Charles Darwin, The power of movement in plants (London: John Murray, p. 450-451) online: But some tendrils are apheliotropic, for instance those of Bignonia capreolata and of Smilax aspera; and the stems of some plants which climb by rootlets, as those of the Ivy and Tecoma radicans, are likewise apheliotropic, and they thus find a support. ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === eproctophilia