| 单词 | whorled |
| 释义 | whorled (once / 68717 pages) adj WORD FAMILY whorled USAGE EXAMPLESTrue to its name, the foot-long snail kite eats only snails—its hooked beak is the ideal shape for plucking muscular morsels from whorled shells. National Geographic(May 18, 2016) The whorled forms barely fit into the space, and lines quickly formed around the block. Wall Street Journal(Nov 05, 2015) Then it resumes, the twin wands of its horns extending, dragging its whorled shell atop the sled of its body. Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See(2014) 1adj in the shape of a coil Syn coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted coiled curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) 2adj forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) Syn verticillate, verticillated cyclic forming a whorl or having parts arranged in a whorl |
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