verticillate

American  

[ver-tis-uh-lit, -leyt, vur-tuh-sil-eyt, -it] / vərˈtɪs ə lɪt, -ˌleɪt, ˌvɜr təˈsɪl eɪt, -ɪt /

Also verticillated

adjective

Biology.

1. disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.

2. having flowers, hairs, etc., so arranged or disposed.

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verticillate British  

/ vɜːˈtɪsɪlɪt, -ˌleɪt, ˌvɜːtɪˈsɪleɪt /

adjective

1. biology having or arranged in whorls or verticils

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Other Word Forms

• verticillately adverb
• verticillation noun

Etymology

Origin of verticillate

1660–70; < Latin verticill ( us ) verticil + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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 Masters, Maxwell T.

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

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

Leaves 1 to 2 in. long, very sharply acute, pale green color, spreading, 4-sided, straight, rigid, slightly glaucous beneath; branches horizontal; branchlets remotely verticillate, numerous, drooping, with light-colored bark.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

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.