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- Whorl - n. & v. - A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
- Whorl - n. & v. - A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
- Whorl - n. & v. - The fly of a spindle.
- Whorled - a. - Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.
- Whorler - n. - A potter's wheel.
- Verticillated - a. - Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell.
- Hamite - n. - A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.
- Whorled - a. - Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.
- Verticillaster - a. - A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.
- Involucre - n. - A whorl or set of bracts around a flower, umbel, or head.
- Volution - n. - A whorl of a spiral shell.