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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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
Flowers terminal, white, verticillate, with the characteristics of the mint family.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Conelets single or verticillate, their scales mucronate; conelets of the second year only slightly enlarged.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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 Maxwell T. Masters
Herbs or shrubs; leaves simple, entire, opposite with stipules, or verticillate, usually turning black in drying.
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
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