circumnutate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

circum- +‎ nutate

Verb[edit]

circumnutate (third-person singular simple present circumnutates, present participle circumnutating, simple past and past participle circumnutated)

  1. (botany) to bend in a direction that is continuously moving in a horizontal direction

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