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- noun Plural form of
verticil .
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Examples
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The cases referrible to this head may be ranged under two sections according as the increase is due to plurality of ordinarily single organs, or to an increase in the number of verticils or whorls.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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= -- In the preceding sections a reduction in the parts of each individual whorl has been considered without reference to similar diminution in neighbouring verticils.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The augmentation of the number of stamens is still more frequent where these organs are arranged, not in verticils, but in one continuous spiral line.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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_Caryophylleæ_, three and four verticils of stamens have been met with.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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This division and formation of new axes and verticils affords ample confirmation of the opinion thrown out by
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Perhaps monocotyledonous plants are more subject to this numerical reduction of the parts of several verticils than are other flowering plants.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In panicles, especially when they are diffuse, the primary branches may be disposed irregularly or in verticils on the main axis.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The terms aphylly, meiophylly, and meiotaxy may be employed, according as the individual leaves are altogether wanting, or with reference to the diminished number of parts in a whorl, or a decrease in the verticils.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Along the course of the spire there were two hundred and three; dividing this latter number by the mean of the two preceding, it was seen that the spire included the constituents of seven ordinary verticils.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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I am inclined to think that there is none of all this, or at least nothing but an innate propensity, whose effects the animal is no more able to control than the flower is able to control the arrangement of its verticils.
The Life of the Spider Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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