एक या अधिक whorls बनाने (विशेष रूप से एक तने के आसपास पत्तियों का एक whorl

verticillate's Usage Examples:

2 2) the pistil consists of five verticillate carpels o, alternating with the stamens e.

Such whorled or verticillate bracts generally remain separate (polyphyllous), but may be united by cohesion (gamophyllous), as in many species of Bupleurum and in Lavatera.

The leaves have a definite relation to each other in the bud, being either opposite, alternate or verticillate; and thus different kinds of vernation are produced.

In monocotyledonous plants there is only one seed-leaf or cotyledon, and hence the arrangement is at first alternate; and it generally continues so more or less, rarely being verticillate.

These causes of change in phyllotaxis are also well exemplified in the alteration of an opposite or verticillate arrangement to an alternate, and vice versa; thus the effect of interruption of growth, in causing alternate leaves to become opposite and verticillate, can be distinctly shown in Rhododendron ponticum.

The same occurs in the verticillate arrangement, the leaves of each whorl rarely being super- posed on those of the whorl next it, but usually alterna ting so that each leaf in a whorl occupies the space be tween two leaves of the whorl next to it.

29); when more than two are produced they are verticillate, and the circle of leaves is then called a verticil or whorl.

On the other hand, the ejaculatory duct with its verticillate sac in the male of Cypris and other genera is a feature scarcely less remarkable.

branched, scattered or verticillate; FIG.

Club-shaped hydranths with numerous tentacles, generally scattered irregularly, sometimes with a spiral arrangement, or in whorls (" verticillate ").

verticillate's Meaning':

forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem

Synonyms:

whorled, cyclic, verticillated,

Antonyms:

acyclic, uncoiled, noncyclic, aperiodic,