circumnutation
English
Etymology
circum- + nutation
Noun
circumnutation (countable and uncountable, plural circumnutations)
- (botany) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
References
- circumnutation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.