circumnutate

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If afterwards the process were reversed, the arch would be pushed over to the opposite or left side, and so on alternately,—that is, it would circumnutate.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Even the stems of seedlings before they have broken through the ground, as well as their buried radicles, circumnutate, as far as the pressure of the surrounding earth permits.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

But the tracing shows that the basal part of the radicle continued to circumnutate irregularly during the whole time.

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 infer that an old and only moderately sensitive leaf does not circumnutate plainly; but we shall soon see that it by no means follows that such a leaf is absolutely motionless.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles