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

• Tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in umbrellalike whorls at ends of twigs.
  高大的常绿树种，树冠对称展开，小枝末梢长有伞状针叶。
• One useful anti-cancer drug can effectively erase the whorls and other characteristic marks that give people their distinctive fingerprints.
  一种非常有效的抗癌药物能够清除箩状指纹和其他使指纹与众不同的标志。
• The primordia of stamens initiate nearly in two whorls.
  雄蕊原基近两轮发生。
• Arranged in or forming whorls or a whorl. botany; not cyclic; especially having parts arranged in spirals rather than whorls.
  轮生的，有毛轮的轮状排列或者轮生的植物学；不是轮生的；特别是有排成螺旋而不是排成轮生体的部分。
• Deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls.
  一种落叶的蔓延灌木，花芳香、黄白色、在叶腋处轮生。
• The density and size of whorls are related to sedimentation rate.
  螺旋的疏密、大小与相对沉积速度有关。
• MORPHOLOGY OF THE OPENLY COILED INITIAL WHORLS ( PROTOCONCHS) OF THE EARLY CAMBRIAN GASTROPODS WITH ITS IMPLICATION Chaotic motion and its control of shallow reticulated spherical shells considering initial imperfect
  早寒武世腹足类开放松旋型初始壳（胎壳）形态学及研究意义具有初始缺陷的扁球面网壳的混沌运动与控制
• Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves.
  林地里生长的一种银莲花，因为解剖后叶片呈现的美丽螺纹和其迷人的花朵而著称。
• 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 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。