circinate

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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.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2022

Several closely-lying lesions may coalesce and a large, irregular patch be formed; some of the patches, also, may be more or less circinate, the central portion having, in a measure or completely, disappeared.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

Scarcely one       Peristome veils its beauties now, but then—   Like nascent diamonds, sparkling in the sun,       Or sainfoin, circinate, or moss in marshy fen.

From A Nonsense Anthology by Wells, Carolyn

Equisetaceæ, 675 On the back or margin of fronds circinate in vernation.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The leaves are generally circinate in the bud, as in ferns.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various