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(botany) The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants..
[T]he increased turgescence of the cells, together with the extensibility of their walls, is the primary cause of the movement of circumnutation.
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Circumnutation means (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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[T]he increased turgescence of the cells, together with the extensibility of their walls, is the primary cause of the movement of circumnutation.
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