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Another word for whorl

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Noun
      1. Something twirled; a twist:
      2. The act of twirling or the condition of being twirled; a quick spinning or twisting.
      3. A twist, coil, etc.
      1. Tobacco leaves processed into the form of a rope or roll.
      2. A change in direction; a turn:
      3. An unexpected change in a process or a departure from a pattern, often producing a distortion or perversion:
      1. Something having a spiral form, as a wire for holding sheets in some notebooks
      2. A spiral curve occurring in a single plane
      3. (Printing) A spiral binding.
    See also:

    coil

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Sentence Examples

  • As a rule, however, the number in a whorl is irregular.

  • In the staminal whorl especially it is common to find additional rows.

  • When there is more than one row or whorl in a flower, those on the outside are sometimes longest, as in many Rosaceae; at other times those in the interior are longest, as in Luhea.

  • B, C, D, E, enlarged.) branched rootstock from which spring slender aerial shoots which are green, ribbed, and bear at each node a whorl of leaves reduced to a toothed sheath.

  • xvii.), and in Clavatella each whorl consists regularly of eight (Allman, loc. cit.

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