Tropisms is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 298 anagrams from letters in tropisms (imoprsst).
First recorded in 1895-1900; independent use of -tropism
Still, Cuccinelli has shown his own tropism toward the kindness of strangers.
Driesch has found that a tropism underlies the arrangement of the skeleton in the pluteus larvae of the sea-urchin.
The object of the tropism is to keep the males and females in the nest until swarming time, and then to get them out.
This may be a tropism (stereotropism) or it may be a mere surface tension phenomenon.
The workers, on the other hand, who have to be in and out of the nest about their business, do not have this tropism.
As a type of human behavior it may be explained, like the attraction of the flame for the moth, as a sort of tropism.
We shall in the succeeding series of papers deal with the subject of tropism in general.