circumnutate

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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

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

We may therefore conclude that the leaves of Acanthus circumnutate periodically, falling in the morning and rising in the afternoon and night.

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

It has also been shown by us, that although leaves subjected to darkness for a moderately long time continue to circumnutate, yet the periodicity of their movements is soon greatly disturbed, or quite annulled.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles