Forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem)
1
Gammer looked up and saw the long, whorled horn coming toward her.
2
The tightly whorled sail membrane began to unfurl from its twenty-metre-high mast.
3
Hanover's burnished surface, whorled with a patina of greens, blues and rust red.
4
Not even when frost began to form whorled patterns on his dead face.
5
They were golden in color and whorled at the end with a low spire.
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The trunk is divided from its root into a great many slender and even verticillate branches.