helicogyrateadj.
/ˌhɛlɪkəʊˈdʒʌɪ(ə)reɪt/ Botany.
Surrounded by an obliquely placed ring, as some spore-cases. Also said of the ferns.
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annulate1830
helicogyrate1857
1857 M. J. Berkeley Introd. Cryptogamic Bot. §595 Fée..includes the helicogyrate ferns also in the general denomination of Polypodiaceæ.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Helicogyrate, having a ring or gyrus carried obliquely round it; as in the spore-cases of Trichomanes.
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