verticillated

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsverticillatewhorled

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Questions about verticillated

What does verticillated mean?

verticillated means "forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem)".

How many syllables are in verticillated?

verticillated has 5 syllables: ver-ti-cil-la-ted. The stress falls on "cil".

What is another word for verticillated?

Close synonyms include verticillate, whorled. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is verticillated a common word?

verticillated is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.