circumnutate

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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

Nevertheless, they are not in the least rudimentary in function, for they are sensitive, extremely heliotropic, circumnutate at nearly the same rate as the fully developed leaflets, and assume when asleep exactly the same position.

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

These paraheliotropic movements certainly consisted in one case of modified circumnutation; and so it probably is in all cases, for the leaves of all the species described circumnutate in a conspicuous manner.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

The cotyledons of this plant, after the first leaf has begun to protrude, are but slightly apogeotropic, though they still continue to circumnutate.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles