whorl

[US]/wɔːl/
[UK]/wɝl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. spiral shape, coil, swirl, vortex
v. to form a vortex; to spiral, to rotate.

Example Sentences

whorled flower parts; a whorled textile pattern.

the dances are kinetic kaleidoscopes where steps whorl into wildness.

Refer to the dermatoglyph i-cs' opening direction and rotating direction, loops were mainly radialward while whorls ulnarward;

Then five petal primordia arised simultaneously in a whorl arrangement, followed by eight stamen primodia arised and last by pistil primodium.

Any of several New World aquatic herbs of the genus Cabomba, having entire, alternate floating leaves and finely divided, opposite or whorled submersed leaves.

Leaves basal and cauline, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, simple or variously compound, palmately nerved, rarely penninerved, with or without stipules.

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