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单词 gyre
释义
gyre
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Use the word gyre when you describe the spiral shape that petals make in the face of a flower.
You can use the noun gyre in a variety of ways, but it always means a kind of circle, especially one that coils or spirals. You'll see a gyre when you look straight at certain blossoms — the rings of petals in a rose, for example, form a gyre. Some plants have gyres of leaves making concentric circles. In late Middle English, to gyre was to "spin something around in circles," from the Greek root word gyros, "circle or ring."
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gyre: gyres
USAGE EXAMPLES
Even as its dimensions widen inexorably, the gyre of stardom continues to turn.
Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016)
Carried by winds and currents, plastic particles have amalgamated with other debris to form gigantic, swirling patches, or gyres, in the world's oceans.
Reuters(Sep 25, 2016)
You could be sailing right through the gyre, as many have observed, and never notice that you’re in the middle of a death-shaped noxious vortex.
Slate(Sep 12, 2016)
n a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
coil, curl, curlicue, ringlet, roll, scroll, whorl
corolla
(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth
calyx
(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and supporting the developing bud; usually green
verticil
a whorl of leaves growing around a stem
hull
persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry
pappus
calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions
round shape
a shape that is curved and without sharp angles
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