circumnutation
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]circumnutation (countable and uncountable, plural circumnutations)
- (botany) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
- 1880, Charles Darwin, assisted by Francis Darwin, “Introduction”, in The Power of Movement in Plants, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 3:
- [T]he increased turgescence of the cells, together with the extensibility of their walls, is the primary cause of the movement of circumnutation.
Further reading
[edit]- “circumnutation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.