intorsion

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INTOR'SION, noun [Latin intorqueo, intorsum, to twist.] A winding, bending or twisting. In botany, the bending or twining of any part of a plant towards one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.
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