Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VERT'I-CIL
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VERT'I-CIL, n. [L. verticillus, from vertex, supra.]
In botany, a little whirl; a mode of inflorescence, in which the flowers surround the stem in a kind of ring. – Cyc.
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