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[ hwurld, hwawrld, wurld, wawrld ] / ʰwɜrld, ʰwɔrld, wɜrld, wɔrld / SEE SYNONYMS FOR whorled ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivehaving a whorl or whorls. disposed in the form of a whorl, as leaves. Origin of whorledFirst recorded in 1770–80; whorl + -ed3 Words nearby whorledwhoreson, Whorf, Whorfian hypothesis, whorish, whorl, whorled, whort, whortleberry, who's, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, whose Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for whorledIts fragrant little yellow flowers are in whorled, axillary cymes, each cluster having from six to eight blossoms. Field and Woodland Plants|William S. Furneaux In the hairs of some of the foreign bats, the scales are whorled, forming very beautiful objects. An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope|John William Griffith Turbinate: Shaped like a whipping-top; whorled from a broad base to an apex. The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide|Augusta Foote Arnold Leaves mostly opposite; flowers axillary or whorled; petals crumpled, or none. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States|Asa Gray
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adj.Having, arranged in, or forming whorls or a whorl. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |