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)

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

Scarcely one       Peristome veils its beauties now, but then—   Like nascent diamonds, sparkling in the sun,       Or sainfoin, circinate, or moss in marshy fen.

From A Nonsense Anthology by Wells, Carolyn

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