genetic spiral
Botany
noun
The line joining successive points of insertion in a spiral pattern of phyllotaxis.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Alfred Bennett (1833–1902), botanist and publisher.
- Stamford
- stamina
- staminate
- staminode
- stammer
- stammerer
- stammering
- stammeringly
- stamp
- Stamp Act
- stamp collecting
- stamp collector
- stamp duty
- stamped addressed envelope
- stampede
- stampeder
- stamper
- stamp hinge
- stamping ground
- stamp mill
- stamp office
- stamp one's authority (or personality or style etc.) on
- stamp paper
- stamp something out
- stan