circinate (sers in at)

[L. circinatus, pp.: see the verb.] Circular or ring-shaped: as, a cir cinate eruption: specifically, in bot., applied to that mode of vernation or foliation in which the leaf is rolled up on its axis from the apex toward the base, like a shepherd's crook, as in the fronds of ferns and the leaves of the sundew; but the term is IMG:content-0436.jpg:[blocks in formation] also sometimes used when the coil simply forms a ring. The vernation of the ferns and cycads is circinate. Lindley , Introd. to Botany. circinately (sėr'si-nāt-li), adv . In a circinate manner, form, or arrangement. Circinately or fasciately convolute. H. C. Wood, Fresh-water Algæ, p. 40. circination (ser-si-nā'shon), n. [L. circina tio (n-), circumference, orbit, circinare , pp. cir cinatus , make round: see circinate, v.] 1. The state of being circinate.-21. A circling or turning round. Bailey .