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Webster 1913 Edition
Circumnutation
Cirˊcum-nu-ta′tion
,Noun.
(Bot.)
The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
Definition 2024
circumnutation
circumnutation
English
Noun
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.
References
- circumnutation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913