a spiral or coil-like structure, particularly used in botany to describe a curved flower cluster.
From Latin cincinus, meaning curl or ringlet, borrowed into botanical scientific terminology.
A cincinus is what happens when a plant's flowers arrange themselves in a beautiful spiral—it's one of those Latin words scientists use because it describes something so specific that English doesn't have a common word for it.
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