- one of a number of seemingly secondary spirals or oblique ranks winding around the stem or axis to the right and left in a spiral arrangement of leaves, scales, etc., where the internodes are short and the members closely crowded, as in the houseleek and the pine cone.
- a hypothetical spiral line connecting the bases of a series of leaves on a stem
- an arrangement of leaves so connected
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