Circumnutation Definition

sʉrkəmnyo͝otāzhən
noun
The irregular spiral or elliptical rotation of the apex of a growing stem, root, or shoot, caused by differences in the rate of growth of the opposite sides.
Webster's New World

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

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Other Word Forms of Circumnutation

Noun

Singular:
circumnutation
Plural:
circumnutations

Circumnutation Sentence Examples

  • It is the immediate cause of the phenomena of circumnutation, each cell of the circumnutating organ showing a rhythmic enlargement and decrease of its dimensions, due to the admission of more and less water into its interior.

  • This continuous change of position has been called circumnutation, and is held to be universal in all growing cylindrical organs.

  • Five of the most distinct tracks are here copied, and they are all slightly sinuous, showing circumnutation.

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