单词 | verticillate |
释义 | verticillateadj. 1. a. Botany. Of plants: Having leaves, flowers; branches, etc., arranged or produced in circles or whorls around the stem. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > in verticil or whorl (of arrangement) > having parts arranged in verticillate1668 verticillated1698 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. iv. §4. 81 Herbs considered according to their flower..may be distinguished into..Verticillate; by which those kinds of Plants are meant, whose flowers grow in rundles or whirles about the stalk. 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 286 The Verticillate Herbs, so called from the Flowers embracing the stalk like a whirl, or wherle. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii X. Table 94 A Verticillate Water Herb, whose Husks stick to Cloaths like Burrs or Clivers. 1720 P. Blair Bot. Ess. iii. 135 The Verticillate Kind are for the most part Irregular. 1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) xix. 357 Coreopsis, verticillate, yellow. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 132 The verticillate order affords an abundant stock from which we may select [carminatives] at pleasure. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 533 Many of the warmer sedatives and antispasmodics as assafœtida, camphor, most of the verticillate plants, and cajeput. b. Entomology, etc. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly > surrounded with whorl of hairs verticillated1752 verticillate1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 324 Verticillate.., antennæ beset with hair in whorls. 1883 Le Conte & G. H. Horn Classif. Coleoptera N. Amer. Introd. p. xv In this form the joints are frequently surrounded at tip with a circle of longer hairs, in which case the antennæ are said to be verticellate. 2. a. Botany. Of leaves, flowers, branches, etc.: Disposed in, or forming, verticils or whorls. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > in verticil or whorl (of arrangement) verticillate1793 whorl-flowered1822 the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > in verticil or whorl (of arrangement) > arranged in verticil or whorl verticillatedc1789 verticillate1793 whorl-flowered1822 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. X4v Verticillate flowers; or flowers growing in a Whirl; or round the stem in rings one above another at each joint. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 202 Square stems and verticillate leaves [of the Madder tribe]. 1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions i. §2. 26 Specimens of a common..tribe of coal-plants.., whose verticillate foliage is too remarkable to escape notice. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 396 The branches and roots spring exclusively from within the base of the leaf-sheath; and as this forms a whorl, the branches and roots are also verticillate. b. Similarly in Zoology, Entomology, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly > surrounded with whorl of hairs > forming verticils verticillate1828 verticillated1828 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 378 Antennæ filiform, long, of from fifteen to sixteen globular joints, furnished with verticillate hairs. 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 675 Verrucæ ascending,..verticillate. ?1870 P. M. Duncan Transformations Insects v. 111 Each tubercle carries several verticillate hairs. 3. Marked or characterized by verticillation. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [adjective] > having a coat > hairy, furry, or woolly > surrounded with whorl of hairs > characterized by verticillation verticillated1718 verticillate1832 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 113 The most exterior verticillate series of the integuments of the flower within the bracteæ. 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 414/1 Simple tubes, divided in a verticillate manner. 1877 E. Coues & J. A. Allen Monogr. N. Amer. Rodentia (U.S. Geol. Surv. Territories, vol. XI) 475 The verticillate whorls of scales between which the short hairs spring. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 464 The phyllotaxis is sometimes verticillate, sometimes spiral. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1668 |
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