Circinate Definition

sûrsə-nāt

adjective

Ring-shaped.

American Heritage

Rounded or circular; specif., rolled into a coil on its axis with the apex in the center, as the new fronds of a fern.

Webster's New World

(botany) Used of leaves or similar parts that are coiled on themselves from the apex toward their base.

Wiktionary

(medicine) Round or ring-shaped, particularly with distinct margins forming some sort of motive; annular.

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Origin of Circinate

Latin circinātus past participle of circināre to make circular from circinus pair of compasses Circinus

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin circinatus , past participle of circinō (“to make round”)

From Wiktionary

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