An officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: field officer; field-grade officer; FO. Hypernyms (field-grade officer is a kind of...): commissioned military officer (a commissioned officer in the army or air force or marine corp) Domain category:
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. The origin of the word pogono is Greek (meaning beard) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear). Pogonophobia is considered to be a specific phobia, which is discussed on the home page.
Geotropism (also known as gravitropism) is a turning or growth movement by a plant or fungus in response to gravity.It is a general feature of all higher and many lower plants as well as other organisms.bundant evidence demonstrates that roots bend in response to gravity due to a regulated movement of the plant hormone auxin known as polar auxin transport (Swarup et al., 2005). This was described in the 1920s in the Cholodny-Went model.