verticillus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin verticillus. === Noun === verticillus (plural verticilli) (botany) A whorl; a verticil. == Latin == === Etymology === From vertex + -illus. === Noun === verticillus m (genitive verticillī); second declension whirl eddy ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== verticillātus ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: verticil Galician: verticilo Italian: verticillo Portuguese: verticilo Spanish: verticilo === References === “verticillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “verticillus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.