verticillate
Americanadjective
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disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
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having flowers, hairs, etc., so arranged or disposed.
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Cells of the same number as the styles, verticillate, with solitary seeds.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Conelets single or verticillate, their scales mucronate; conelets of the second year only slightly enlarged.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
The capsule may open by two, three, or four valves,—or by pores; the seeds, generally numerous, are sometimes solitary, and the leaves may be alternate, opposite, or verticillate.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
When the leaves are verticillate and numerous, and they become coherent by their margins, they form a foliaceous tube around the stem.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Flowers pink, verticillate, in opposite clusters around the stem, with several linear and hairy involucres at the base of each cluster.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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