v 4 e 1 r 1 n 1 a 1 t 1 i 1 o 1 n 1
9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens
originFrom New Latin vernātiō, from Latin vernāre (“to be verdant, to flourish”) + -tiō (“-tion”, suffix forming abstract nouns), from vernus (“springlike”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥. Equivalent to vernal + -tion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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