circinate

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

circinate (not comparable)

1. (botany) Of a leaf or similar part: coiled on itself from the apex toward the 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.

• anicteric

circināte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of circinō