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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Other Word Forms

• verticillately adverb
• verticillation noun

Etymology

Origin of verticillate

1660–70; < Latin verticill ( us ) verticil + -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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.

This arrangement may be thus formularised: 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 In the verticillate or simultaneous arrangement of leaves the case is somewhat different.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Flowers pink, verticillate, in opposite clusters around the stem, with several linear and hairy involucres at the base of each cluster.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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

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