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
Others are very curious, being stellate in Triposporium, circinate in Helicoma and Helicocoryne, angular in Gonatosporium, and ciliate in Menispora ciliata.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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
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
Scorpioid or Scorpioidal, curved or circinate at the end, 77.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
