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
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
Scorpioid or Scorpioidal, curved or circinate at the end, 77.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Most Ferns are circinate in the bud; that is, are rolled up in the manner shown in Fig.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
When is a patch of eruption said to be circinate?
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
