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circinate

adjective as in circular

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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.

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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