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.
Other Word Forms
- verticillately adverb
- verticillation noun
Etymology
Origin of verticillate
Example Sentences
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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.
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 Gray, Asa
Flowers pink, verticillate, in opposite clusters around the stem, with several linear and hairy involucres at the base of each cluster.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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.
Flowers terminal, white, verticillate, with the characteristics of the mint family.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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