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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Involucral leaves numerous, verticillate, deeply 4-cleft; perianth exserted, pyriform-cylindric, laciniate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Growth of wood and fruit emanating from the nodes; buds, branchlets and cones, therefore, in verticillate association.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
Most of the species are North American herbs, having opposite, alternate, or verticillate leaves.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
This arrangement may be thus formularised: 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 In the verticillate or simultaneous arrangement of leaves the case is somewhat different.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
The panicle in Sporobolus coromandelianus is pyramidal and the branches are all verticillate, the lower being longer than the upper.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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