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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Singular:
circumnutation
Plural:
circumnutations

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