whorled
- adjective
- /ˈwɜrld/
- Specialized
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en espiral
- The duplication that gave rise to group X and group Y, followed by the acquisition of new functions in group X, may likewise have provided the genetic instructions for whorled flowers in the core eudicots—and set the stage for the explosion of flower forms within this group.
- whorled flowers
Limbs, wrist thick with bark, whorled and cleft by, but whose tight angle might snap this year and wreck the tree and require a saw to remove.
- Limbs, wrist thick with bark, whorled and cleft by, but whose tight angle might snap this year and wreck the tree and require a saw to remove.
Examples
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Whorled petals can fuse to form tubes, as in morning glory, and stamens can fuse to petals, as in mint flowers.
Academic text (2006) -
Limbs, wrist thick with bark, whorled and cleft by, but whose tight angle might snap this year and wreck the tree and require a saw to remove.
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Whorled flowers simply have more evolutionary flexibility than spiral flowers.
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Spiraling lines, more monkey business but nonrepresentational, suggest a "motif," and on the littoral the whorled sea shells repeat it.
Fiction book (1991) -
Whorled flowers can abandon the radial symmetry of Arabidopsis for the bilateral symmetry of snapdragon.
Academic text (2006) -
It was probably the whorled arrangement that led to the tremendous floral elaboration and innovation in the core eudicots (not to mention other plant groups with whorled flowers).
Academic text (2006) -
Katya's unit starts to seem "more like an ear: whorled, attentive, magnifying every faint sound" (111) and she hears what should be impossible, given the fingerprint lock on her door: human footsteps inside.
Academic text (2018) -
The leaves are whorled around the stem, creating a beautiful spiral pattern.
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In some plants, the whorled arrangement of flowers enhances pollination.
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The gardener admired the whorled blossoms that seemed to spiral outwards.
Synonyms
25
3.8
Having a curved shape that winds around a center like a coil
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6.7
In the shape of a spiral, like a twisted staircase
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3.4
Shaped like a circle
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4.3
Shaped like tight rings or spirals
Having parts arranged in a circle or spiral around a plant stem
Leaves or branches set in a ring around a stem
Leaves or other parts that grow in a circle around a stem
Curled into a spiral, like young fern leaves that unroll
A round shape with spiral arms like a child's pinwheel
Something that winds around a center like a snail shell
A spiral that winds around a central line
Has a spiral shape like a snake or rope
A thing that is coiled in a spiral like a snail shell
Something that has a spiral or coil shape for decoration
Shaped like a spiral, for example a snail shell
Compounds
A common North American plant with yellow flowers and leaves that grow in rings around the stem
A flowering plant with narrow leaves that grow in rings around the stem and small greenish-white flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Whorled comes from the old word whorl, from a root that meant 'to turn' and is the same root as whirl. So something whorled is arranged in rings or spirals that seem to 'turn' around a center, like leaves circling a stem.