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Definition of: verticil
(vûr′tə·sil) noun Biol.
A set of organs, as leaves or tentacles, disposed in a circle around an axis; whorl; a volution of a spiral shell. [<L verticillus a whorl, dim. of vertex, -icis VERTEX]
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