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whorled::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | verticillate, verticillated |
Examples of whorled
whorled
Its whorled endpapers are the work of Niebelungian trolls who never see the sun.
From the time.com
Why spend money and energy to save, say, the frostweed or the small whorled pogonia?
From the time.com
Abundant wildflowers include prairie dock, whorled rosinweed and spiked blazing-star.
From the post-gazette.com
A Spanish foxglove with a mass of tightly whorled deep chocolate trumpets.
From the independent.co.uk
These are tiny tubers, whorled like seashells, ivory and crisp as jicama, but nuttier.
From the orlandosentinel.com
I stare at the layers of whorled stone, trying to come up with a good visual metaphor.
From the sfgate.com
The subseries all bear whorled leaves apart from B. canei and B. aquilonia.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The shaft of the ceremonial mace is the whorled tusk of a narwhal, a small Arctic whale.
From the economist.com
Before the autumn season, the apical portion of stem is removed along with the whorled leaves.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Coil: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- Lock: a strand or cluster of hair
- Coil: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"
- (whorled) coiling: in the shape of a coil
- (whorled) verticillate: forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem)
- A whorl is a single, complete 360u00B0 revolution or turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell. A spiral configuration of the shell is found in of numerous gastropods, but it is also found in shelled cephalopods including Nautilus, Spirula and the large extinct subclass of cephalopods known as the ammonites.
- A pattern of concentric circles; A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem; A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell; A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, compare 1460; To form a pattern of concentric circles
- (whorled) The arrangement of leaves or flowers in circular clusters around a stem.
- (Whorled) Leaf form, where three or more leaves radiate from a single node.
