Meaning of phyllotaxis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement.
   uncountable, usually
2. An abortive style.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“Yet his Lordship would find this rate of proportion […] likewise in all plants, in the disposition of their leaves, for which ordering he would make a name, that is, from the Greek, phyllotaxis.”

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