Circumnutation

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  • n. The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A nodding or inclining round about; specifically, in botany, the continuous motion of some part of a plant, as the apex of the stem, a tendril, etc., in which it describes irregular elliptical or circular figures.
    • Word Usage
    "The changes of position of leaves and of climbing plants, and the sleep of leaves are all brought under this great principle of circumnutation."
     
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