| 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. |