单词 | verticil |
释义 | verticiln.ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > other equipment on which to wind yarn bottom1440 blades?a1500 verticil1703 1703 A. de la Pryme Let. to Sir H. Sloan (Sloane MSS 4056) f. 33 Verticels or glass Beads formed on purpose to wind thread on. 2. Botany. A number or set of organs or parts arranged, disposed, or produced in a circle round an axis (see quot. 1882 at α. ); a whorl. false or spurious verticil, a verticillaster.Also similarly in Zoology (in recent dictionaries). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [noun] > verticil or arranged in whorl rundle1578 verticillus1760 verticil1793 verticillation1830 α. β. 1856 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. Terms 214 Verticel, Verticillus,..a whorl.1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 483 The joints of the stems give off verticels of leaves.1881 Spencer in Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip No. 202. 229 It is generally supposed that the branches were also arranged in verticels.1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. X4v A Verticil or Whirl may be 1. Sessile or peduncled. 2. Naked... 3. Crowded. 1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. §258 Ajuga... Hairy: verticils crowded into a pyramidal form, many-flowered. a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 43/2 The stamens in the same verticil are sometimes joined together, and sometimes with the neighbouring verticils. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 170 An axial structure may produce either several equivalent lateral members at the same level, or only one; in the second case the members formed in succession are termed solitary, in the first case a Whorl or Verticil. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1703 |
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