circumnutate

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Full-grown leaflets circumnutate during the day slowly and on a small scale.

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

These taken together suffice to render it probable that all peduncles and sub-peduncles circumnutate whilst growing.

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

The leaf was occasionally observed for the next four days, but was kept in rather too cool a place; nevertheless, it continued to circumnutate to a small extent, and the lobes remained closed.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles