verticillate

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verticillate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Verticillate \Ver*tic"il*late\ (?; 277), Verticillated
  \Ver*tic"il*la`ted\, a. [See Verticil.] (Bot. & Zool.)
     Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a
     wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate
     shell.
     [1913 Webster]

verticillate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  verticillate
      adj 1: forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves
             around a stem) [syn: verticillate, verticillated,
             whorled]