circumnutation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stem of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants. countable,uncountable
    — [T]he increased turgescence of the cells, together with the extensibility of their walls, is the primary cause of the movement of circumnutation.

词形变化

circumnutations plural

词源

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Latin circus
Latin circum
Latin circum-bor.
English circum-
English nutation
English circumnutation
From circum- + nutation.
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