circumnutate

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Amphicarpoea monoica.—This plant produces long thin shoots, which twine round a support and of course circumnutate.

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

Climbing plants circumnutate much more widely than any other plants, yet they are not at all heliotropic.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

This is conspicuously the case with those tendrils which consist of modified leaves, as these sweep wide circles; whilst ordinary leaves usually circumnutate nearly in the same vertical plane.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

We may, therefore, infer with a considerable degree of safety that all the growing parts of all plants circumnutate.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles