apheliotropically

English

Etymology

From apheliotropic +‎ -ly.

Adverb

apheliotropically (comparative more apheliotropically, superlative most apheliotropically)

1. In an apheliotropic way; away from the sun.
   • 1880, Charles Darwin, The Power of Movement in Plants:

     In the case of the radicles of Sinapis alba, sensitiveness to light also resides in the tip, which, when laterally illuminated, causes the adjoining part of the root to bend apheliotropically.

   • 1982, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, page 901:

     It has been empirically found that the reflection ratio when apheliotropically (looking downsun) is ...

   • 1994, Thomas Avena, Life sentences: writers, artists, and AIDS, page 111:

     Where the red moon, inches above our heads, Will exclude us from its light, apheliotropically, in the end.