亚洲网紅露点

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circinate

[ sur-suh-neyt ]

adjective

  1. made round; ring-shaped.
  2. Botany, Mycology. rolled up on the axis at the apex, as a leaf or fruiting body.


circinate

/ 藞蝉蓽藧蝉瑟藢苍别瑟迟 /

adjective

  1. botany (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
  2. anatomy resembling a ring or a circle
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

circinate

  1. Rolled up in the form of a coil with the tip in the center, as an unexpanded fern frond.
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Derived Forms

  • 藞肠颈谤肠颈藢苍补迟别濒测, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠颈谤顎僣颈路苍补迟别路濒测 adverb
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of circinate1

1820鈥30; < Latin 肠颈谤肠颈苍腻迟耻蝉 (past participle of 肠颈谤肠颈苍腻谤别 to make round), equivalent to circin ( us ) pair of compasses (akin to circus ) + -腻迟耻蝉 -ate 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of circinate1

C19: from Latin 肠颈谤肠颈苍腻谤别 to make round, from circinus pair of compasses, from circus, see circus
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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鈥檚 new fronds.

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Seeds numerous, anatropous, with a short and minute embryo at the base of the albumen.鈥擫eaves 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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