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

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)

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.

The capsule may open by two, three, or four valves,—or by pores; the seeds, generally numerous, are sometimes solitary, and the leaves may be alternate, opposite, or verticillate.

From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John

Involucral leaves numerous, verticillate, deeply 4-cleft; perianth exserted, pyriform-cylindric, laciniate.

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

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