clinostat

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clinostat - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Clinostat \Cli"no*stat\, n. [Gr. ? to incline + ? to make to
     stand.] (Bot.)
     An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usually
     regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of
     external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may
     be regulated or eliminated.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]