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circinate

The English word “circinate” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of a leaf or similar part: coiled on itself from the apex toward the base.
  2. Round or ring-shaped, particularly with distinct margins forming some sort of motive; annular.

Etymology

From Latin circinatus, past participle of circinō (“to make round”).

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