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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Cells of the same number as the styles, verticillate, with solitary seeds.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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
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.
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
The panicle in Sporobolus coromandelianus is pyramidal and the branches are all verticillate, the lower being longer than the upper.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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