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What does circumnutation mean?

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Noun
  1. (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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It is sufficient for my purpose to point out that Darwin's explanation of circumnutation is not universally accepted.
The bare fact that circumnutation is a general property of plants is not generally rejected.

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