incurvation

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But as the incurvation lasts for so short a time, any such benefit can be of only slight importance, yet perhaps greater than at first appears.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

This incurvation serves, as already shown, to prevent insects from being washed away by the rain; but it likewise serves for another end.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

The pressure from fragments of glass excites movement almost as quickly as the absorption of nitrogenous matter, but the degree of incurvation thus caused is much less.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles

But since the members are equal, it is necessary that the member which is quiescent should be inflected either in the knee or in the incurvation, if the animal that walks is without knees.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

With the second leaf there was a trace of incurvation in 2 hrs.

From Insectivorous Plants by Darwin, Charles