circinate
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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.
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The leaves are generally circinate in the bud, as in ferns.
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Most Ferns are circinate in the bud; that is, are rolled up in the manner shown in Fig.
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When is a patch of eruption said to be circinate?
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The leaves are usually "circinate"—they unroll in expanding, like the fronds of ferns.
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