circumnutate

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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 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

Even after the flower-heads have buried themselves in the ground they continue, as will hereafter be shown, to circumnutate.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

After 5.15 P.M., by which time the light had become obscure, the hypocotyl began to circumnutate about the same spot.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

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