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n. A form that coils or spirals; a curl or swirl: spread the icing in peaks and whorls.

n. Botany An arrangement of three or more leaves, petals, or other organs radiating from a single node.

n. Zoology A single turn or volution of a spiral shell.

n. One of the circular ridges or convolutions of a fingerprint.

n. Architecture An ornamental device, as in stonework or weaving, consisting of stylized vine leaves and tendrils.

n. A small flywheel that regulates the speed of a spinning wheel.

n. A pattern of concentric circles.

n. A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.

n. A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

n. A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, compare 1460.

v. To form a pattern of concentric circles.

n. A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.

n. A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

n. The fly of a spindle.

n. In archaeology, one of certain round objects, sometimes slightly cup-shaped, which are frequently found in excavations.

n. In botany, a ring of organs all from the same node; a verticil.

n. In conchology, one of the turns of a spiral shell; a volution; a gyre.

n. In anatomy:

n. A volution or turn of the spiral cochlea of man or any mammal. See cut under ear.

n. A scroll or turn of a turbinate bone, as the ethmoturbinal or maxilloturbinal. See cut under nasal.

n. The fly of a spindle, generally made of wood, sometimes of hard stone, etc. Also thworl and pixy-wheel.

n. a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

n. a strand or cluster of hair

n. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops

"Lift up the two loops of the double-drive belt and put one loop over a bobbin whorl, and one loop over a flyer whorl."

whorl of the heart   

volution    gyre    involucre    involucrum   

Berle    Curl    Earl    Earle    Erl    Merle    Pearl    Perl    Perle    Shirl   

swirl    spiral    streamer    nimbus    eddy    vortex    helix    cone