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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 Analysis of Double Loop Whorls of The Left-Handed Han Nationality
  汉族左利的双箕斗纹分析
• Flowers are formed in concentric whorls of sepals, petals, stamens and carpels.
  萼片、花瓣、雄蕊和雌蕊同心排列构成完全花。
• Large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base.
  美国东南一种每年落叶的大型灌木，叶大且茂密，大型乳白色花冠，基部略带紫色。
• 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。
• 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。
• ( botany) lacking one or more of the four whorls of the complete flower& sepals or petals or stamens or pistils.
  （植物学）缺少完全花的四个轮生体当中的一个或者多个&萼片、花瓣、雄蕊或者雌蕊。
• Forming one or more whorls ( especially a whorl of leaves around a stem).
  形成一个或多个轮生体（特别是绕着干生长的轮生叶）。