verticillaster

verticillaster
verticillastrate /verr"teuh si las'trayt, -trit/, adj.
/verr'teuh si las"teuhr/, n. Bot.
an inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged in a seeming whorl, consisting in fact of a pair of opposite axillary, usually sessile, cymes, as in many mints.
[1825-35; < L verticill(us) VERTICIL + -ASTER1]

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