Circumnutation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants. countable, uncountable

    "[T]he increased turgescence of the cells, together with the extensibility of their walls, is the primary cause of the movement of circumnutation."

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revolving nutation

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"[T]he increased turgescence of the cells, together with the extensibility of their walls, is the primary cause of the movement of circumnutation."

Etymology

From circum- + nutation.

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