Usually means: Plant growth movement around axis.
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  1. circumnutation: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumnutation: Collins English Dictionary
  3. circumnutation: Wordnik
  4. circumnutation: Wiktionary
  5. circumnutation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Circumnutation, circumnutation: Dictionary.com
  7. Circumnutation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. circumnutation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Circumnutation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. circumnutation: FreeDictionary.org
  11. circumnutation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. circumnutation: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (circumnutation)

noun:  (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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