Verticil (Noun)
Meaning
A whorl of leaves growing around a stem.
Classification
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes.
Examples
- The fern had three distinct verticils of fronds at the top of its stem, each with numerous leaflets.
- One characteristic of the cattail plant is its arrangement of leaves in a tight verticil around the stem.
- Carefully examining the stem, she noticed a small verticil of new leaves emerging from the node.
- In this particular species of succulent, a single verticil of leaves always grows at the base of the stem.
- The rare orchid had a most unusual growth pattern, with all its leaves concentrated in a dense verticil near the apex of the stem.