Whorled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Whorled \Whorled\, a.
     Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or
     whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "whorled":
     ambagious, anfractuous, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear,
     cochleate, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose,
     flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional,
     labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose,
     roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate,
     sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile,
     tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty,
     verticillate, volute, voluted, winding, wreathlike, wreathy