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Definition of Phyllotaxis
1. Noun. (botany) The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phyllotaxis
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Medical Definition of Phyllotaxis
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Literary usage of Phyllotaxis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"1 One-half phyllotaxis. » One-third phyllotaxis. ... 4 Three-eighths phyllotaxis.
The conical stem horizontally projected; the points of insertion of the ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1900)
"phyllotaxis IN CONNECTION WITH ... phyllotaxis has not been made much use of by
systematists. In a general way recognition has been given to the alternate ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1872)
"As to the note in my Structural Botany, I must have taken it for granted, without
proper examination, that the phyllotaxis of Bap- tisia was of the f order, ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: : Exhibiting a View of the Progressive (1857)
"Hilgard :—The author endeavours to construct a theory of the cause of phyllotaxis
or arrangement of leaves. Hitherto, phyllotaxis has only been studied in ..."
5. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"(phyllotaxis, ETC.) 235. THE situation of leaves, as well as their general office
in the vegetable economy, and several of their special adaptations, ..."
6. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1873)
"phyllotaxis; OR, THE ARRANGEMENT OF LEAVES IN ACCORDANCE WITH MATHEMATICAL LAWS,
By the Rev. GEORGE HENSLOW, MA, FLS, FGS INTRODUCTION. ..."
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