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noun - (botany): the arrangement of leaf, leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement
- 1985: 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, . " John Fowles, A Maggot
Etymology: From Greek "leaf" + "arrangement" (from "arrange").
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