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circinate
[sur-suh-neyt]
adjective
made round; ring-shaped.
Botany, Mycology.rolled up on the axis at the apex, as a leaf or fruiting body.
circinate
/ ˈɜːɪˌԱɪ /
adjective
botany (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
anatomy resembling a ring or a circle
circinate
Rolled up in the form of a coil with the tip in the center, as an unexpanded fern frond.
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Other Word Forms
- circinately adverb
- ˈˌԲٱ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of circinate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of circinate1
Example Sentences
These are the buds readying for the circinate vernation that will slowly, like a graceful dancer, unfurl fiddleheads into this year’s new fronds.
Seeds numerous, anatropous, with a short and minute embryo at the base of the albumen.—Leaves circinate in the bud, i.e., rolled up from the apex to the base as in Ferns.
The leaves are generally circinate in the bud, as in ferns.
Most Ferns are circinate in the bud; that is, are rolled up in the manner shown in Fig.
When is a patch of eruption said to be circinate?
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