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circumnutation

noun

Etymology

From circum- + nutation.

  1. borrowed from nūtātiō
  2. prefixed as circumnutation — “circum + nutation”

Definitions

  1. The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem…

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

    • [T]he increased turgescence of the cells, together with the extensibility of their walls, is the primary cause of the movement of circumnutation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for circumnutation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA