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

It then suddenly began to circumnutate in the ordinary manner.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Seedling cabbages circumnutate much more quickly, for the tip of a cotyledon crossed 1/100th of an inch on the micrometer in 3 m.

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 sheath-like cotyledons of the Gramineae circumnutate, that is, move to all sides, as plainly as do the hypocotyls or epicotyls of any dicotyledonous plants.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles