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for whorled
From The 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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
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]
From 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
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