maccaboy                a kind of snuff, usu. rose-scented.
bedeguar                a rose gall, esp. on sweetbriar.
tortile                 coiled or twisted.
remontant               (of roses) blooming more than once per season.
rose engine             a lathe with an oscillating spindle or tool
                        rest, used for turning geometric patterns.
peloria                 (bot.) abnormal regularity in a flower's structure.
pleiomery               (bot.) the state of having unusually many
                        flowers in a whorl.
verticil                a whorl of leaves or other protrusions
                        encircling a point on a central axis.


chandelle               an abrupt climbing turn, verging on a stall.
verticillaster          an arrangement resembling a verticil in
                        appearance, consisting of a pair of cymes.
umbel                   a inflorescence with a number of pedicels
                        branching from their common peduncle. 
umbellule               one of the secondary umbels in a compound umbel.
girandole               a rotating firework; a connected group of
                        mines; an ornate bracket for candelabra; 
                        a fountain with rotating jets; a pendant
                        consisting of a piece of jewelry surrounded by
                        smaller pendants. 
tourbillion             a whirlwind; a firework which spirals upwards;
                        a frame for a watch's escapement which rotates
                        it about once a minute to reduce positional
                        error.
karrusel                a device for reducing positional error,
                        rotating every 52 1/2 minutes.
stackfreed              a device involving a spring pressing against a
                        spiral cam, to maintain a constant driving
                        force in a timepiece even as the mainspring 
                        unwinds.
tortillon               a wad of paper twisted to a point.
vrille                  a spiraling head-first aerobatic descent.