circumnutate
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In this state the upper part of the hypocotyl and the cotyledons continue for some time to circumnutate, generally to a wide extent relatively to the size of the parts, and at a rapid rate.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
We may, therefore, infer with a considerable degree of safety that all the growing parts of all plants circumnutate.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
The tip of the radicle, as soon as it protrudes from the seed-coats, begins to circumnutate, and the whole * 'Physiologie Végétale,' 1868, pp.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
These circumnutate in a conspicuous manner, and are thus aided in passing between and over surrounding obstacles.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
We may therefore conclude that the leaves of Acanthus circumnutate periodically, falling in the morning and rising in the afternoon and night.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
These radicles therefore were continually moving in all directions—that is, they circumnutated.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
On the third morning they fell very much, and then circumnutated on a small scale round the same spot; by 8.20 P.M. they showed no tendency to rise at night.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
Between 11 A.M. and 5 P.M. it circumnutated, and after the latter hour the great nocturnal fall commenced.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
Therefore the cotyledons certainly circumnutated, though the chief movement was up and down in a vertical plane.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
All the individuals of the Solanum did not behave in the same manner, for the cotyledons of one circumnutated about the same spot between 2.30 and 10 P.M.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
The leaf was growing rapidly, so that the apex ascended greatly during this period; as it zigzagged much it was clearly circumnutating, and it apparently tended to form one ellipse each day.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
Brassica oleracea: circumnutating movement of buried and arched hypocotyl, with the two legs of the arch tied together, traced on horizontal glass during 33 ½ hours.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
In A we see the complex circumnutating course pursued from 11.30 A.M.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
Brassica oleracea: circumnutating and geotropic movement of radicle, traced on horizontal glass during 46 hours. fastened so as to project quite vertically upwards.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
In the course of the present volume it will be shown that apparently every growing part of every plant is continually circumnutating, though often on a small scale.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles
