- short-day
- adjective Date: 1920 responding to or relating to a short photoperiod — used especially of a plant; compare day-neutral, long-day
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short-day plant — noun (botany) One that will flower only if the daily period of light is shorter than some critical length (cf ↑day neutral plant, ↑long day plant) • • • Main Entry: ↑short * * * short day plant «SHRT DAY», a plant that blooms only when its daily… … Useful english dictionary
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short-day — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : responding to a short photoperiod used especially of a plant * * * /shawrt day /, adj. Bot. requiring a short photoperiod. [1915 20] * * * adj. [attrib.] (of a plant) needing a daily period of darkness of more than a… … Useful english dictionary
short-day — /shawrt day /, adj. Bot. requiring a short photoperiod. [1915 20] * * * … Universalium
short-day plant — /ˈʃɔt deɪ plænt/ (say shawt day plant) noun a plant which requires a comparatively long period of darkness in a 24 hour period to initiate flowering; typically flowering in late summer or autumn as the nights lengthen and the daylight hours… …
short-day plant — A plant which will not flower until triggered to do so by exposure to one or a number of dark periods equal to or longer than its critical period. Other plant species are long day and some are daylength neutral. Genetic variation for daylength… … Glossary of Biotechnology
short-day — adjective (of a plant) needing a relatively long daily period of darkness to initiate flowering … English new terms dictionary
One Short Day — The original Broadway Cast performing One Short Day One Short Day is the 9th song in the musical Wicked. It is also the opening number to Wicked in Universal Studios Japan. It takes place during the Emerald City scene, where the two witches… … Wikipedia
