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/fɪləˈtæksɪs/ · noun
(botany) The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement..
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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Phyllotaxis means (botany) The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement..
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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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