circumnutate

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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

The first change is the protrusion of the radicle, which begins at once to circumnutate.

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 therefore circumnutate independently of the movement of the hypocotyl.

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