scorpioid

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

• adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a scorpion.
• adj. Botany Like the tail of a scorpion; circinate: a scorpioid cyme.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

• adj. Of, pertaining to, or appearing like a scorpion.
• adj. Resembling a scorpion's tail, as in a scorpioid cyme; circinate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• adj. Having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• In zoology:
• Resembling or related to a scorpion; belonging to the Scorpionida.
• Rolled over or curled like the tail of a scorpion; cincinnal; coiled in a flat spiral.
• In botany, curved or circinate at the end, like the tail of a scorpion; rolled up toward one side in the manner of a crozier, unrolling as the flowers expand, as in some of the Boraginaceæ. See cut in next column.