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
Ferns, with fronds circinate in vernation, bearing the fructification on the under surface or beneath the margin.
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
P. campan.-convex, lubricous, smoky-ochre, edge revolute downy and whitish; g. sinuate, crowded, reddish, edge white, crenulate; s. slender, whitish, subbulbous, with reflexed circinate fibrils; sp. 11-12 long. nauseosum, Cke.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Parasitic upon Polyzoa, etc. circinate branched--branches irregular divaricate.
