1. rolled up in a coil with the tip at the center, like a fern frond before it unfurls
Usage: botanical

Examples

• The young fern fronds showed their characteristic circinate pattern.
• Botanists study the circinate vernation of developing leaves.
• The circinate buds slowly unfurled as spring progressed.
• Many ferns display circinate growth in their early stages.
• The gardener recognized the circinate shoots as emerging fiddleheads.