Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, drooping or nodding; hanging with the apex downward: applied to stems, flower-clusters, etc.
- In entomology, sloping: said of a surface or part forming an obtuse angle with the parts behind it, or with the axis of the body: as, a nutant head.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Nodding; having the top bent downward.
Examples
“Corbulo vix ferret tot vasa ingentia, tot res inpositas capiti, quas recto vertice portat servulus infelix et cursu ventilat ignem. scinduntur tunicae sartae modo, longa coruscat serraco veniente abies, atque altera pinum plaustra vehunt, nutant alte populoque minantur (iii.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nutant’.
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morphology Terms
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Adjectival Arcana
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yarb "The old bandstand stood empty, the equestrian statue of the turbulent Huerta rode under the nutant trees wild-eyed evermore..."
- Lowry, Under the Volcano Jun 24, 2011