Hypertext Webster Gateway: "whorled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Whorled \Whorled\, a.
Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or
whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
whorled
adj 1: like the pattern basic to the human fingerprint [syn: {looped}]
2: in the shape of a coil [syn: {coiling}, {helical}, {spiral},
{spiraling}, {volute}, {voluted}, {turbinate}]
3: forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves
around a stem) [syn: {verticillate}, {verticillated}]
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