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 Shaw, George Russell
Seeds 3, pendulous.—Slender, mainly submersed, with opposite or verticillate capillary-dissected leaves, a few floating, alternate and centrally peltate.
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 Gray, Asa
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
For example in the panicle of Eragrostis Willdenoviana, the branches are irregularly disposed, whereas in Sporobolus coromandelianus the branches are verticillate.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The trunk is divided from its root into a great many slender and even verticillate branches.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
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