circumnutate

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The several foregoing arched organs are continually circumnutating, or endeavouring to circumnutate, even before they break through the ground.

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

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

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

After 5.15 P.M., by which time the light had become obscure, the hypocotyl began to circumnutate about the same spot.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles