diaheliotropism (diaheliotropizm)

diaheliotrop - ic + -ism.] In bot., the tendency of a plant or of the organs of a plant to a ume a more or le transverse position to the light. As all leaves and cotyledons are continually circumnutating, there can hardly be a doubt that diaheliotropism results from modified circumnutation. Darwin, Movement in Plants, p. 564. combined by means of a stereoscope. - Stre -diagram. Same as funicular diagram. - Velocity-diagram, a diagram defined like an acceleration-diagram by substituting velocity for acceleration. (See also color - diagram.) diagram (di'a-gram), v. t. [ They are matters which refuse to be... diagramed , which Logic ought to know she cannot speak of. Carlyle . diagramically (di-a-gram'i-kal-i), adv . A shortened form of diagrammatically . [Rare.] The folds of her skirts hanging diagramically and stiffly. Philadelphia Times , April 18, 1885.