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Meaning of nastia




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

nastia
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It is a Greek suffix which means gathering, contraction, shrink, shrink action. It is a phenomenon of a tissue affected by a decrease in temperature (heat) or light. The fotonastia is the property have some flowers open to feel the heat of the Sun and then close itself off from its concealment.

  




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Nastia: Greek adjective nastos, tight. Normally contractile and adirectional reaction of plants to external stimuli such as light ( fotonastia ) , temperature ( termonastia ) , severity ( geonastia ) or movements ( sismonastia or thigmonasty ). The sismonastias of some sundews are curious to catch the movement of some insect or the mimosa pudica leaves to be touched.

  


Anónimo

NASTIA: impossibility.

  


Anónimo

NASTIA: Movement of a plant organ against a stimulus of external and diffuse nature.

  



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