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
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.
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 Asa Gray
Scorpioid or Scorpioidal, curved or circinate at the end, 77.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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 Asa Gray
