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whorled

ADJECTIVE
  1. forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem)
  2. in the shape of a coil

How To Use whorled In A Sentence

  • These gastropods have slender, high-spired, multiwhorled shells bearing a sinistral protoconch and were united by Knight in the family Streptacididae.
  • It has white flowers in a whorled, bracteate raceme, no spathe, roots with tubers.
  • Most prominent among them were a tall man with a whorled sea-shell of a helmet and a four hundred pound enormity in gaudy ceremonial armor. Virginity
  • There were fascicles of spindle cells sometimes arranged in a whorled pattern or admixed with thick collagen fibers.
  • Rare species such as wavy St. John's-wort, meadow thistle, and whorled caraway can also be seen.
  • The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • Unlike the Hollywood outsiders playing with six-shooters, Adakai could name all the sandstone spires, massive buttes, and whorled arches, bathed in reflected red: the Right Mitten and the Left, Gray Whiskers, Three Sisters, Bear and Rabbit, King on His Throne, arrayed in an ancient skyline that could have passed for Mars. Yellow Dirt
  • "Small Whorled-Big Mission" shows Marines training in woods populated with the small whorled pogonia.
  • The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • Wentletraps have beautifully whorled shells and take their name from an old Dutch word that means ‘winding staircase‘.
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