verticil

Other forms: verticils

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