verticil noun. ['vǝ:tɪsɪl] Also (earlier) verticel [-s(ǝ)l]. E18.
[Latin VERTICILLUS.]
1. A kind of glass bead used as a bobbin. rare. Only in E18.

2. Botany & Zoology. A set of three or more similar organs arising at the same point on an axis; a whorl. L18.

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