circumnutate

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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

Full-grown leaflets circumnutate during the day slowly and on a small scale.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

We may therefore infer that an old and only moderately sensitive leaf does not circumnutate plainly; but we shall soon see that it by no means follows that such a leaf is absolutely motionless.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Amphicarpoea monoica.—This plant produces long thin shoots, which twine round a support and of course circumnutate.

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