Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bot., same as
phyllotaxis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.
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- noun
phyllotaxis
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Examples
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Thus, the leaves in assuming a new phyllotaxy, take one quite analogous to the normal one.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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In the adult state it is not always possible to ascertain with certainty to which of these causes the increase in the number of leaves is due, though a clue to the real state of things may be gained from attention to the distribution of the veins, to the arrangement or phyllotaxy of the leaves, the size and position of the supernumerary organs, &c.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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This is the leaf-arrangement or phyllotaxy of the apple-tree, expressed by the fraction 2/5.
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