Chasteberry is the fruit of the chaste tree, a small shrub-like tree native to Central Asia and the Mediterranean region. The dried ripe chasteberry is used to prepare liquid extracts or solid extracts that are put into capsules and tablets.
Kinesis (biology) Woodlouse activity decreases as humidity increases. Kinesis, like a taxis or tropism, is a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus. However, unlike taxis, the response to the stimulus provided (such as gas exposure, light intensity or ambient temperature) is non-directional.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Synesis. Synesis is a traditional grammatical/rhetorical term derived from Greek ÏÏÎ½ÎµÏÎ¹Ï. A constructio kata synesin means a grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other word implied in that word.