whorled

3 definitions found

whorled - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

whorled - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  whorled
      adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical,
             spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled,
             turbinate]
      2: forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves
         around a stem) [syn: verticillate, verticillated,
         whorled]

whorled - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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