Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A verticil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A whorl; a verticil.
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- noun botany A
whorl ; averticil .
Etymologies
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Latin, a whirl.
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Examples
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Towards the middle a small bamboo becomes plentiful; the lower joints, from which no branches proceed, are armed with a verticillus of spines.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The capsules are arranged in a single verticillus and consequently this species will belong to Gyrostemon as distinguished from
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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