circumnutation
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of circumnutation
C19: from circum- + -nutate, from Latin nūtāre to nod repeatedly, sway
Example Sentences
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Deutzia gracilis: circumnutation of stem, kept in darkness, traced on horizontal glass, from 8.30 A.M. to 7 P.M.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
Cotyledon umbilicus: circumnutation and downward movement of another stolon, traced on vertical glass, from 9.11 A.M.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
Pelargonium zonale: circumnutation of stem of young plant, feebly illuminated from above.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
The nature of the movement is thus a successive nodding to all the points of the compass, whence it is called by Darwin circumnutation.
From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Jane H. Newell
The ascending and descending lines traced during the three days did not coincide, so that the movement was one of circumnutation.
From The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin
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