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Webster 1913 Edition


Verticillated

{

Ver-tic′il-late

(?; 277)
,

Ver-tic′il-laˊted

, }
Adj.
[See
Verticil
.]
(Bot. & Zool.)
Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel;
as,
verticillate
leaves of a plant; a
verticillate
shell
.