whorls

英 [wɜːlz]

美 [wɜrlz]

n.  螺旋状图案; 螺纹; 轮，轮生体(环生于植物茎部的叶、花等)
whorl的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (指纹等的)涡，螺旋状
  Awhorlis a spiral shape, for example the pattern on the tips of your fingers.
  1. He stared at the whorls and lines of her fingertips.
     他盯着她指尖的涡纹和流纹。
  2. ...dense whorls of red-purple flowers.
     层层叠叠的紫红色花朵

双语例句

• A spiral formation, such as one of the whorls of a gastropod shell. screw housing clearance
  螺旋形一种螺旋形状，如一个涡螺壳上的螺旋推运螺旋与壳间间隙
• He stared at the whorls and lines of her fingertips.
  他盯着她指尖的涡纹和流纹。
• The clear cell change is usually diffusely seen, and meningothelial whorls may not be apparent.
  细胞的透明变常常是弥漫可见，而脑膜上皮细胞的轮状结构可能不很明显。
• Juvenile leaves are needlelike; mature leaves are awl-shaped, spreading, and arranged in pairs or in whorls of three.
  幼叶呈针状，成熟叶呈锥状，成对或3叶轮生。
• The Analysis of Double Loop Whorls of The Left-Handed Han Nationality
  汉族左利的双箕斗纹分析
• The growth of a pine shoot is often represented as the springtime elongation of a bud laid down the preceding summer. tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in umbrellalike whorls at ends of twigs.
  松树枝梢的生长常常被说成是上年夏季形成的芽的春日伸长。高大的常绿树种，树冠对称展开，小枝末梢长有伞状针叶。
• For example, the number of pistils was the more frequently increased than organs in the outer whorls.
  比如雌蕊的数目增加通常要比外轮器官数目增加频繁。
• Any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives.
  任何属于萝芙木属的灌木或小树，有轮生体的叶子和聚伞花序的花；产生的物质用在医药上，特别是催吐剂和泻剂。
• Climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow ( later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States.
  一种落叶的缠绕灌木，花芳香、黄色（后变成桔色）、在顶端轮生；产自美国东南部。
• The primordia of stamens initiate nearly in two whorls.
  雄蕊原基近两轮发生。