circumnutate

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These paraheliotropic movements certainly consisted in one case of modified circumnutation; and so it probably is in all cases, for the leaves of all the species described circumnutate in a conspicuous manner.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

It would, therefore, not be rash to assume that the growing leaves of all plants circumnutate, as we have seen reason to conclude is the case with cotyledons.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

Such periods probably represent attempts to circumnutate in a direction opposite to apogeotropism.

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

With these facts before us, bearing also in mind that the tendrils of not a few plants consist of modified peduncles, we may admit without much doubt that all growing flower-stems circumnutate.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles