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Denoting leaves or fronds that are rolled up with the tip in the centre, for example the young frond of a fern.
- ‘Most also have circinate branch tips, which unroll like the fiddle head of a fern.’
- ‘Droseraceæ are known from Violaceæ by their circinate leaves.’
Circular in appearance.
- ‘Hard exudates may form a circinate pattern around a leaking microaneurysm.’
- ‘The transilluminated retinal image of the right eye at autopsy shows a circinate, elevated, perimacular retinal fold.’
Early 19th century: from Latin circinatus, past participle of circinare make round, from circinus pair of compasses.
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