Whorl Definition

wôrl, hwôrl, wûrl, hwûrl
whorls
noun
whorls
Anything with a coiled or spiral appearance.
Webster's New World
An arrangement of three or more leaves, petals, or other organs arising from a single node.
American Heritage
A single turn or volution of a spiral shell.
American Heritage
A small flywheel on a spindle, as for regulating the speed of a spinning wheel.
Webster's New World
One of the circular ridges or convolutions of a fingerprint.
American Heritage Medicine
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verb
(intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.
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Other Word Forms of Whorl

Noun

Singular:
whorl
Plural:
whorls

Origin of Whorl

  • Middle English whorle alteration of whirle whirl from whirlen to whirl whirl

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Whorl 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.

  • Trophosome, polyps with a single whorl of capitate tentacles; gonosome, free medusae, with ten tacles branched, solid.

  • There is no satisfactory explanation of this break in the regular alternation of successive whorls; the outer whorl' of stamens arises in course of development before the inner, so that there is no question of subsequent displacement.

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Words Starting With

WWHWHO

Words Ending With

LRLORL

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