circumnutate

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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

The leaf was occasionally observed for the next four days, but was kept in rather too cool a place; nevertheless, it continued to circumnutate to a small extent, and the lobes remained closed.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

With these facts before us, bearing also in mind that the tendrils of not a few plants consist of modified peduncles, we may admit without much doubt that all growing flower-stems circumnutate.

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

This is conspicuously the case with those tendrils which consist of modified leaves, as these sweep wide circles; whilst ordinary leaves usually circumnutate nearly in the same vertical plane.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles