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nastic

/ˈnæstɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
nas-tic
IPA
/ˈnæstɪk/
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to the response of a plant to a stimulus that does not depend on the location of the stimulus.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From German nastisch from epinastisch, coined c.1854 by German botanist Karl Friedrich Schimper, from Ancient Greek ναστός (nastós, “pressed together”), from νάσσω (nássō, “to press, cram full”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: nastisch, ναστός

Frequently Paired Words

taxic tropic

Rhymes With

fantastic plastic enthusiastic drastic sarcastic elastic stochastic monastic dynastic spastic bombastic thermoplastic

Questions

How do you pronounce nastic?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnæstɪk/.
What does nastic mean?
Relating to the response of a plant to a stimulus that does not depend on the location of the stimulus.
Where does nastic come from?
It is traced to German.

How to pronounce nastic

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