whorled

Speech parts

1. whorled - Adjective

2. whorled - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

volute spiral helical coiling turbinate spiraling voluted verticillate verticillated serpentine turning circular wound coil cyclic
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Antonyms

direct noble pure straight justified upright
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Phrases with the word

whorled loosestrife whorled aster whorled mallow whorled pennywort whorled caraway whorled-leaf false buttonweed

Examples

Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear. Gerard Manley Hopkins

.. for the dead fish was striped like a cat and the sky was striped like the fish and the conch was whorled like an ear and the beach was ribbed like a dog's mouth and the movables in the surf splintered and crashed like the walls of Jericho. John Cheever

The leaves emerge oppositely, each pair at right angles to the previous one (called decussate) or whorled. Source: Internet

The phyllotaxis is usually decussate, rarely whorled (e.g. Fadogia ), or rarely alternate resulting from the suppression of one leaf at each node (e.g. Sabicea sthenula). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

whorl foot whorl snail whorlbat whorled aster whorled caraway whorled loosestrife