English Explanatory Dictionary

circumnutation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

circumnutation circumnutations

Etymology

From circum- + nutation.

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