Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To nod or turn about; specifically, in botany, to move about in a more or less circular or elliptical path: said of the apex of a stem and of other organs of a plant. See
circumnutation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To pass through the stages of circumnutation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb botany to
bend in adirection that is continuouslymoving in ahorizontal direction
Etymologies
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circum- + nutate
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