Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A circular arrangement, as of flowers, leaves, or hairs, growing about a central point; a whorl.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a whorl: applied to organs, as leaves or tlowers, that are disposed in a circle or ring around an axis.
- noun In zoology, a whorl, or circular set of parts radiating from an axis: as, a verticil of hairs, tentacles, or processes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A circle either of leaves or flowers about a stem at the same node; a whorl.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
whorl , a group of similar parts such asleaves radiating from a sharedaxis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a whorl of leaves growing around a stem
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All intermediate stages of this malformation may be found from cases where there is a simple fusion of two flowers with a second verticil of carpels within the outer, up to such cases as those which have been just mentioned.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In the normal stem of _Galium Mollugo_ the branches are opposite in each verticil and crossed in the two successive ones.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The carpels of the latter are wholly coalescent as in a pear, while those of the upper verticil are only partially coherent or sometimes quite distinct.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The _inflorescence_ is a pyramidal panicle 1-1/2 to 4 inches long, erect on a terete glabrous peduncle 1-1/2 to 6 inches long, the main rachis is slender, erect, striate, glabrous and has glandular streaks just above the insertion of the branches of the lowest verticil.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Kirschleger, [452] and in the accompanying diagram (fig. 195), from Cramer, [453] of a monstrous flower of _Orchis mascula_, there is one perfect stamen of the outer row and two lip-like stamens of the same series, while the inner verticil comprises one perfect and two abortive stamens.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In one instance the pseudo leaf divided, and from the division proceeded a little axis, bearing at its summit a verticil of pseudo leaves.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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= -- A diminished number of leaves in a whorl occasionally takes place; thus, in some of the _Stellatæ_, and frequently in _Paris quadrifolia_, the number of leaves in the verticil is reduced.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The torsion, then, in this _Galium_ caused the separation of the two opposite branches of the same verticil, and placed them one above another, and this being reproduced in all the whorls, all the branches come to be arranged on the same longitudinal line.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In the middle of the verticil is similar to basal leaves.
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The Pasque flower has a few leaves and a single flower with verticil
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