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Meanings of verticillate in английском

Forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem)

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Examples for "whorled"
1
Gammer looked up and saw the long, whorled horn coming toward her.
The Pinhoe Egg
2
The tightly whorled sail membrane began to unfurl from its twenty-metre-high mast.
The Reality Dysfunction
3
Hanover's burnished surface, whorled with a patina of greens, blues and rust red.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
4
Not even when frost began to form whorled patterns on his dead face.
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
5
They were golden in color and whorled at the end with a low spire.
Song of the Nile
Usage of verticillate in английском
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The trunk is divided from its root into a great many slender and even verticillate branches.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
Verticillate through the time