circumnutate

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The central idea of the book is that the movements of plants in relation to light, gravitation, &c., are modifications of a spontaneous tendency to revolve or circumnutate, which is widely inherent in the growing parts of plants.

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This movement has been called by Sachs "revolving nutation;" but we have found it much more convenient to use the terms circumnutation and circumnutate.

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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.

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

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The cotyledons therefore circumnutate independently of the movement of the hypocotyl.

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