Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, rolled spirally downward. See circinate, a.
  • In entomology, rolled spirally backward and inward: applied to the proboscis of a haustellate insect, as a butterfly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Circinate.

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  • adjective botany circinate; coiled from the apex towards the base

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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