Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.

a. (L. verticillus, whorl) growing in a whorl or arranged on the same plane around an axis, as flowers, leaves, branches, etc.; arranged in verticils, whorled.

With thre or more leaves or branches at a node ; whorled.

(L. vertex, verticis: whirl) adj. Growing in a whorl or arranged on the same plane around an axis, as flowers, leaves, branches, etc.; arranged in verticils, whorled.

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

arranged in one or more whorls; a false whorl of flowers in a pair of opposite dense cymes, especially in Lamiaceae.

Whorled, several similar organs at the same point of an axis. Parent Term: Leaf_arrangement Difficulty Level

In whorls or verticils.

Having branches or flowers arranged in whorls at two or more levels of an inflorescence.