Definition of Circinately

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Circinately

circadian
circadian clock
circadian dysrhythmia
circadian rhythm
circadian rhythms
circannual
circar
circars
circellus
circellus venosus hypoglossi
circhoral
circinal
circinate
circinate retinitis
circinate retinopathy
circinately (current term)
circination
circinations
circinnate
circiter
circle
circle-A
circle-jerk
circle-strafe
circle-strafed
circle-strafes
circle-strafing
circle absorption anaesthesia
circle around
circle contact lens

Literary usage of Circinately

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"become circinately coiled with their tips in the centre of the coil. Other species agreeing with ... The cotyledons are circinately coiled or imperfectly ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1885)
"The fossil is about 3 inches long ; but if we measure the full length of the circinately rolled-up portion as if it were straightened out, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1885)
"The fossil is about 3 inches long; but if we measure the full length of the circinately rolled-up portion as if it were straightened out, ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The young leaves of Cycas consist of a straight rachis bearing numerous linear pinnae, traversed by a single midrib; the pinnae an circinately coiled like ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1897)
"In a slightly older stage the stem apex has become conical, and a number of leaves have formed which are circinately curved, and form a bud clothed with ..."

6. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Having the appearance of sawdust. Scorpioni. Incurved like the tail of * scorpion, applied to * unilateral circinately coital in- ..."

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