verticil

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• Each spine between the two shells has a verticil of three forked lateral branches (fig. 9a).

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) | Ernst Haeckel

• At the middle, or in the distal half, each spine bears a verticil of three strong, irregularly formed ramified branches.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) | Ernst Haeckel

• From each spine arise ten to twelve verticils of lateral branches; each verticil composed of three forked branches.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) | Ernst Haeckel

• The terminal branches form either a similar verticil, or a bunch or corona, composed of numerous radial secondary spines.

  Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index | Ernst Haeckel

• verticil: one of the whorls of long fine sensitive hair arranged symmetrically on the joints of the antennae in certain Diptera.

  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology | John. B. Smith