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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Ring-shaped.
- adjective Botany Rolled up in the form of a coil with the tip in the center, as an unexpanded fern frond.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a circle (upon) with a pair of compasses.
- Circular or ring-shaped: as, a circinate eruption: specifically, in botany, applied to that mode of vernation or foliation in which the leaf is rolled up on its axis from the apex toward the base, like a shepherd's crook, as in the fronds of ferns and the leaves of the sundew; but the term is also sometimes used when the coil simply forms a ring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make a circle around; to encompass.
- adjective (Bot.) Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns.
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- adjective botany Used of
leaves or similar parts that arecoiled on themselves from theapex toward their base. - adjective medicine
Round orring -shaped, particularly with distinctmargins forming some sort ofmotive ;annular .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective shaped like a ring
Etymologies
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Examples
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Planchon [288] figures and describes a flower of _Drosera intermedia_ that had passed into a chloranthic condition, excepting the calyx, which was unchanged; the petals, like the valves of the ovary, were provided with stipules, and were circinate in vernation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The stamens presented different degrees of development; in some cases they were fully formed, the anther-lobes open, and the pollen exposed; while in other instances the filaments were involute or circinate, just as the ordinary stamens are in the unexpanded flower-bud.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Seborrh [oe] a corporis differs in a measure, in its symptoms, from seborrh [oe] a of the scalp and is usually illustrative of the variety known as eczema seborrhoicum; it occurs as one or several irregular or circinate, slightly hyperæmic or moderately inflammatory patches, covered with dirty or grayish-looking greasy scales or crusts, usually moderate in quantity, and upon removal are found to have projections into the sebaceous ducts.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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#When is a patch of eruption said to be circinate?
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The _annular syphiloderm_ (_circinate syphiloderm_) is observed usually in association with the large-papular eruption, and consists of several or more variously sized, ring-like lesions, with a distinctly elevated solid ridge or wall peripherally and a more or less flattened centre.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Several closely-lying lesions may coalesce and a large, irregular patch be formed; some of the patches, also, may be more or less circinate, the central portion having, in a measure or completely, disappeared.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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_ MALADY: _Tinea tonsurans, or circinate ringworm.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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_Tinea tonsurans_, or circinate ringworm, description and treatment, 477
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Far removed from green fields and leafy woods, they may, for instance, enjoy their leisure mornings in watching one of the most beautiful phenomena of vegetable development -- the evolution of the circinate fronds of the fern; a plant in every respect associated with elegance and beauty.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 Various 1836
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As in the ferns, the venation of its fronds is circinate, or scroll-like, -- they have in several respects a resembling structure, -- in at least one recent species they have a nearly identical form; and fronds of this fern-like type seem to have been comparatively common during the times of the Oolite.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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