tropism

movement of an organism, or part of an organism, in response to an external source of stimulus, usually toward or away from it.
Intangible biological_process Q239762
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

tropism

Summary

tropism is a biological process[1]. tropism draws 92 Wikipedia views per month (biological_process category, ranking #182 of 442).[2]

Key Facts

  • tropism's instance of is recorded as biological process[3].
  • tropism's GND ID is recorded as 4186320-3[4].
  • tropism's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85138077[5].
  • tropism's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 123474206[6].
  • tropism's subclass of is recorded as response to external stimulus[7].
  • tropism's Commons category is recorded as Tropism[8].
  • tropism's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D018523[9].
  • tropism's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 35042[10].
  • tropism's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02rqym[11].
  • tropism's MeSH tree code is recorded as G07.345.249.845[12].
  • tropism's MeSH tree code is recorded as G15.920[13].
  • tropism's Gene Ontology ID is recorded as GO:0009606[14].
  • tropism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tropism[15].
  • tropism's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300260149[16].
  • tropism's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 571.4[17].
  • tropism's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 571.8[18].
  • tropism's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0239835[19].
  • tropism's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[20].
  • tropism's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • tropism's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[22].
  • tropism's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[23].
  • tropism's described by source is recorded as Belarusian encyclopedia (vol. 15)[24].
  • tropism's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)[25].
  • tropism's described by source is recorded as Great medical encyclopedia[26].
  • tropism's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/tropism[27].

Why It Matters

tropism draws 92 Wikipedia views per month (biological_process category, ranking #182 of 442).[2] tropism has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] tropism is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Gene Ontology release 2019-10-07. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). tropism. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/tropism
MLA “tropism.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/tropism.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_tropism_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{tropism}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/tropism}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): tropism — https://4ort.xyz/entity/tropism (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/tropism · Last refreshed: