| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cir·ci·nate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  sûr s -n t |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Ring-shaped. 2. Botany Rolled up in the form of a coil with the tip in the center, as an unexpanded fern frond. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin circintus, past participle of circinre, to make circular, from circinus, pair of compasses. See Circinus. | | OTHER FORMS: | circi·nately —ADVERB
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