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CLINOSTAT: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Cli"no*stat\, n. [Gr. ? to incline + ? to make to
stand.] (Bot.)
An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually
regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of
external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may
be regulated or eliminated.
 

 

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