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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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
Displacement of the parts of the flower from elongation of the receptacle is a not infrequent teratological occurrence, resulting sometimes in the conversion of the verticillate into the spiral arrangement.
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
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
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.
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