Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a set of certain secondary spirals or oblique ranks which wind around the axis in opposite directions when the inter-nodes are short and the leaves approximate or overlap, as the scales of cones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A secondary
spiral ofleaves
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek παρά + στίχος ("row").
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