verticil

ver·ti·cil  (vûrt-sl)

n.

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

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

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Verticil a number or set of organs or parts of items arranged in a circle or round an axis, 1793.

Examples: verticil of beads, 1703; of branches, 1881; of leaves, 1872.

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Noun

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verticil - a whorl of leaves growing around a stem curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, whorl, coil, roll - a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)