circumnutate

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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

We have seen in the fourth chapter, that the leaves of Lupinus speciosus, which do not sleep, circumnutate to an extraordinary extent, making many ellipses in the course of the day.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

These taken together suffice to render it probable that all peduncles and sub-peduncles circumnutate whilst growing.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

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

Such periods probably represent attempts to circumnutate in a direction opposite to apogeotropism.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles