Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the abnormal dislocation of the organs of a flower in a spiral direction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The occasional twisted growth of the parts of a flower.
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- noun botany The occasional
twisted growth of the parts of aflower .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek a coil + flower.
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