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Meanings of whorled in English

In the shape of a coil.

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Forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem)

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Usage of whorled in English
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Gammer looked up and saw the long, whorled horn coming toward her.
The Pinhoe Egg
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The tightly whorled sail membrane began to unfurl from its twenty-metre-high mast.
The Reality Dysfunction
3
Hanover's burnished surface, whorled with a patina of greens, blues and rust red.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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Not even when frost began to form whorled patterns on his dead face.
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
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They were golden in color and whorled at the end with a low spire.
Song of the Nile
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The walls curve into the ceiling -whorled and delicate, bones inside an ear.
Number9Dream
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Lewis's tightly whorled thoughts quaked in fright as he reached the island's vast neural strata.
The Reality Dysfunction
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But why is it whorled like a snail's shell?
The Irish Times
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A missile composed of tightly whorled shadow swelled up out of the centre of the flowering blackness.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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I grunted and watched the window as we banked over the whorled settlement patterns of a major city.
Altered carbon
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The whorled dunes sliding westward into the night, reaching up to the multitudes of stars now coming on.
The Last Ship
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The pretty, close-whorled spirals, placed one against the other on the same level, have a very pleasing general effect.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
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His hair had dried in bronze streaks and whorled over my breasts like the petals of a Chinese chrysanthemum.
Outlander
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How it eddied and funneled and whorled, now massing thick like frosted glass, now thinning to a web of tissue.
The Window-Gazer
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Where patches had died and fallen away, they revealed etched symbols-manykilometers of them, arrayed in spirals and whorled radiances.
Halo Silentium
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At the far end of a murky whorled tunnel, Powel saw the sandy-haired teenager walk round in front of the dog.
The Reality Dysfunction
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