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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
/ û′ə-′ /
- Rolled up in the form of a coil with the tip in the center, as an unexpanded fern frond.
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Derived Forms
- ˈˌԲٱ, adverb
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Other 51Թ Forms
- c·Բٱ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of circinate1
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of circinate1
C19: from Latin to make round, from circinus pair of compasses, from circus, see circus
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These are the buds readying for the circinate vernation that will slowly, like a graceful dancer, unfurl fiddleheads into this year’s new fronds.
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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.
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The leaves are generally circinate in the bud, as in ferns.
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Most Ferns are circinate in the bud; that is, are rolled up in the manner shown in Fig.
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When is a patch of eruption said to be circinate?
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