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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• ( 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The primordia of stamens initiate nearly in two whorls.
  雄蕊原基近两轮发生。
• He stared at the whorls and lines of her fingertips.
  他盯着她指尖的涡纹和流纹。
• 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