whorls in English

noun
1
a pattern of spirals or concentric circles.
Shelley drew larger and larger dark whorls on her notepad
2
a small wheel or pulley in a spinning wheel, spinning machine, or spindle.
A 2oz spindle with a 2 inch diameter whorl works for fine to medium thickness wool.
verb
1
spiral or move in a twisted and convoluted fashion.
the dances are kinetic kaleidoscopes where steps whorl into wildness

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1. Five whorls of Bracts subtending sporangia are visible

2. 2 Eyelashes tickling the floor, mouth kissing its varnished whorls.

3. I've circled the whorls in pen in case the transmission's fuzzy.

4. Their perigonium consists of two trimerous whorls of tepals, or Conversely …

5. Eyelashes tickling the floor, mouth kissing its varnished whorls.

6. Bulbil contains concentric whorls of fleshy scales covered by few dried scales

7. 10 The whorls thus formed are smaller than the submerged form.

8. 1 He stared at the whorls and lines of her fingertips.

9. In the whorls of the inflorescence a few juvenile plantlets develop which root readily.

10. 7 The whorls are arranged densely and alternately on the stem to form rosettes.

11. Dark green bristly foliage arranged in dense whorls around slender brittle stems.

12. The Cucuteni graves contained vases, beads, spindle whorls, and three Goddess figurines in each one.

13. 13 No two street cracks, like the whorls of fingerprints, are exactly alike.

14. 5 Dark green bristly foliage arranged in dense whorls around slender brittle stems.

15. The whorls are arranged densely and alternately on the stem to form rosettes.

16. Buttonbush leaves are in opposite pairs or in whorls of three (see next photo)

17. Antirrhinum flowers comprise four concentric whorls, with five sepals, five petals, four stamens, and two carpels

18. 12 A prolific plant with dense bushy stems bearing whorls of dark green foliage.

19. 13 In the whorls of the inflorescence a few juvenile plantlets develop which root readily.

20. Cowlicks, or hair whorls, are hair sections that grow opposite to the direction of other hair strands

21. We traveled in thick fog and through whorls of brown blowing mist, which made the woods ghostly.

22. 24 At high elevations a healthy pine will have up to seven or eight whorls, Proctor said.

23. Whorls, or Cowlicks, form in the fetus at the same time as the nervous system

24. The leaves of Bedstraw are formed in whorls containing 6 - 8 leaves around square stems

25. 11 In the whorls of the inflorescence a few juvenile plantlets develop which root readily.

26. 4 We traveled in thick fog and through whorls of brown blowing mist, which made the woods ghostly.

27. Tube Anemones are distinguished from true Anemones by their two distinct whorls of tentacles on the oral disk

28. At high elevations a healthy pine will have up to seven or eight whorls, Proctor said.

29. 9 The Cucuteni graves contained vases, beads, spindle whorls, and three Goddess figurines in each one.

30. Cowlicks, whorls and hair-flows are all growth patterns that can be problematic when styling the hair.

31. Many plant of this genus which have whorls of small blue flowers are called by the common name Bluecurls.

32. Field madder generally has smaller leaves than the Bedstraws and the leaves occur in whorls of 4 to 6

33. 8 Other species have squat whorls, the whole ammonoid being so tightly rolled up as to be almost spherical.

34. ‘Old Colophons on school books sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls - both in worn morocco.’

35. Other species have squat whorls, the whole ammonoid being so tightly rolled up as to be almost spherical.

36. The staminate flowers are mostly longer and thinner than the pistillate flowers, with 17-32 glabrous stamens in four whorls.

37. 14 If you have many whorls, few loops, patterned palms the chances are you will develop duodenal ulcers.

38. — Turbiniform shell gradational to Holopea, convex whorls with round narrow shoulders, smooth polished surface, ornament of lirae, Anomphalous.; Description

39. 25 He sat and stared at the desk in front of him, the creamy whorls in the wood, the tanned grain.

40. Field madder generally has smaller leaves than the Bedstraws and the leaves occur in whorls of 4 to 6

41. 3 Reaching about a foot in height, whorls of rose-purple flowers the same shape as dead nettles are produced in May.

42. Anomphalous; sutures shallowly impressed; protoconch of two whorls, smooth conispiral; rounded to suboval aperture; apertural mar-gin orthocline; apertural lip flares out slightly

43. Whorls may be decorated or left plain, and they may be affixed permanently to the shaft or they may be removable.

44. 6 She traced with her forefinger the silky whorls of the carved garland of oak leaves that swung across both doors.

45. She traced with her forefinger the silky whorls of the carved garland of oak leaves that swung across both doors.

46. Toward the margin of the disk, individual Bracts are separated and upturned at their tips to overlap the Bracts of several whorls above.

47. The early whorls have one, the later ones two, the last whorl three spiral keels on the anterior one of which the suture is laid.

48. (credit: modification of work by Mariana Ruiz Villareal) If all four whorls (the calyx, corolla, Androecium, and gynoecium) are present, the flower is described as complete.

49. The latter Abstricted masses can differentiate directly into spores or form new tips, giving rise to whorls of irregular or evenly spaced branches

50. Candelabra primulas are majestic perennial plants noted for their eye-catching flowers carried in numerous whorls up their strong stems, like a wedding cake