circinate

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

circinate (not comparable)

1. (botany) Used of leaves or similar parts that are coiled on themselves from the apex toward their base.
2. (medicine) Round or ring-shaped, particularly with distinct margins forming some sort of motive; annular.

• Most often the term is used in botany with regard to the way a leaf is "packaged" inside a bud.

• circinate vernation

• anicteric

circināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of circinō