ADJECTIVE
- forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem)
- 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‘.