verticil

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  1. noun A circular arrangement, as of flowers, leaves, or hairs, growing about a central point; a whorl.

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  1. Latin verticillus, the whorl of a spindle, diminutive of vertex, vertic-, highest point; see vertex.

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  1. Also verticel; = French verticille = Spanish Portuguese Italian verticillo, from Latin verticillus, the whirl of a spindle, diminutive of vertex, a whirl: see vertex.
 

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/ˈvərtɪsɪl/
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