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Phyllotaxis vs Phyllotaxies - What's the difference?

phyllotaxis | phyllotaxies |

As nouns the difference between phyllotaxis and phyllotaxies

is that phyllotaxis is the arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement while phyllotaxies is plural of phyllotaxy.

phyllotaxis

English

(wikipedia phyllotaxis)

Alternative forms

*phyllotaxy

Noun

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  • (botany) The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement.
  • * 1985 , John Fowles, A Maggot :
    • 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 .

    phyllotaxies

    English

    Noun

    (head)