How To Use Whorl In A Sentence

This is a small holopid with rounded whorls, deep sutures and a body whorl bearing coarse collabral threads.
Old colophons on school books sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls - both in worn morocco.
The largest number of instances of this malformation, not merely generically, but also individually, occurs in plants the members of whose floral whorls are not united one to the other; thus, it is far more common in polypetalous plants than in gamopetalous ones. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
These gastropods have slender, high-spired, multiwhorled shells bearing a sinistral protoconch and were united by Knight in the family Streptacididae.

Alamirifica corona differs considerably from Echinobathra by not having protruding, very thick varices nor tabulate whorls.
This duplication may either be accounted for on the theory of chorisis above alluded to, or by supposing that the extra corolline whorl is due to a series of confluent petalodic stamens; that the latter is the true explanation, in certain cases at least, is shown by some flowers of Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Every day is different, but a typical spread might include soup served with chunks of wholemeal, a savoury Danish (a whorl of dough stuffed with pesto, tapenade, spinach and goats cheese), Dorset rarebit (with cider) or rustic open sandwiches (doorsteps of sourdough piled with hummus and salad) – all at £5.75. West Dorset's top 10 budget eats
Apart from this, botanists are generally agreed that the concrescence of parts of the flower-whorls -- in the gynaeceum as the seed-covering, and in the corolla as the seat of attraction, more than in the androecium and the calyx -- is an indication of advance, as is also the concrescence that gives the condition of epigyny. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Phlomis russeliana is a fine choice, up to about 90cm, with whorls of yellow flowers in the summer. Times, Sunday Times
It has white flowers in a whorled, bracteate raceme, no spathe, roots with tubers.
The axial ribs on the last whorl of Mexfusus extend abapically to a point above the constriction.
Most prominent among them were a tall man with a whorled sea-shell of a helmet and a four hundred pound enormity in gaudy ceremonial armor. Virginity
There were fascicles of spindle cells sometimes arranged in a whorled pattern or admixed with thick collagen fibers.
Rare species such as wavy St. John's-wort, meadow thistle, and whorled caraway can also be seen.
This fine species most nearly resembles Vivipara ussuriensis, Gerst.; but the last whorl is more inflated, and the surface of the shell is not malleated or lirate. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
In subsequent prints, the demurely phallic-shaped object gradually metastasizes into a whorling explosion.
This, in turn was surrounded by several whorls of bracts that many homologize with petals and sepals in flowering plants.
The rich plushy, plumelike branches grow in regular whorls around the trunk, and on the topmost whorls, standing erect, are the large, beautiful cones. Steep Trails
The tendency to petalification is, moreover, greater among those plants which have their floral elements arranged in spiral series, than among those where the verticillate arrangement exists; and in any given flower, if the stamens are spirally arranged while the carpels are grouped in whorls, the former will be more liable to petalody than the latter, and _vice versâ_. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The bisexual flowers generally consist of carpels and staminodes inserted on the same whorl.
The group is easily recognized by their radial symmetry, with a central nonseptate axis to which are attached whorls of lateral appendages which may or may not be branched.
The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
The largest number of instances of this malformation, not merely generically, but also individually, occurs in plants the members of whose floral whorls are not united one to the other; thus, it is far more common in polypetalous plants than in gamopetalous ones. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
This is a neat, finely-decussated, concolorous species, with the upper whorls nodulous from erosion, as in Vivipara praerosa, Gerst. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
The difference in the weight of the whorl, the degree of teasing and the skill of the spinner dictated the quality of the thread.
Importantly, organs of the two outermost whorls of lily flower are very similar, generating a perianth of tepals, instead of sepals and petals.
Pines normally produce whorls of lateral branches with no internodal buds along the stem.
In those plants which present this deviation from the ordinary condition with the greatest frequency, it often happens that the axis is normally more or less prolonged, either between the various whorls of the flower, as in the case of the gynophore, &c., or into the cavity of the carpels, as in the instances of free central placentation. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Small, blocky shapes of towns, fields, and pastures surround the graceful swirls and whorls of the Mississippi River.
There is something eternally fascinating about the ridges and whorls on our hands and feet, those unrepeatable patterns which cover most of what is termed our "volar skin", that is, skin of the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet. Archive 2008-10-01
polyphylly," using the word in the same sense as in ordinary descriptive botany, while "pleiotaxy" may be applied to those cases in which the number of whorls is increased. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The dominant taxa at that time (modal geometries C and D) had compressed, moderately to openly umbilicate shells with slowly expanding whorls, morphologies poorly exploited by Permian goniatitids.
Along a stretch of one road someone has draped strings of little lights in loops and whorls on a line of trees.
Unlike the Hollywood outsiders playing with six-shooters, Adakai could name all the sandstone spires, massive buttes, and whorled arches, bathed in reflected red: the Right Mitten and the Left, Gray Whiskers, Three Sisters, Bear and Rabbit, King on His Throne, arrayed in an ancient skyline that could have passed for Mars. Yellow Dirt
Shell short, broad robust, sides curved; spire about equal to the mouth; upper whorls nearly flat on the side; suture bordered by a slightly thickened margin; surface marked by a few large rounded revolving lines crossed by irregular lines of growth, so as to produce a semi-cancellate appearance. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Trillium species are characterized by a single trimerous flower subtended by a whorl of three leaves.
The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The leaves below the archegonial group are frequently modified in size and shape, but the chief protection is afforded by a tubular perianth, which corresponds to a coherent whorl of leaves and grows up independently of fertilization. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
Pan and Erwin described Erwinispira jucunda and recognized that it has a larval shell of three whorls.
So reducing whorl root stress focus may distribute to improve bolt intensity and life.
The formation of organs in the four whorls of a typical eudicotyledonous flower, consisting of sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels, requires many genes for proper organ and tissue development.
Shell compressed triangular; whorls eight, the first nuclear, the next three cancellate and showing little or no trace of varices, which show themselves on the next (fifth) distinctly for the first time, suture deep, caused by the great convexity of the whorls. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
"Small Whorled-Big Mission" shows Marines training in woods populated with the small whorled pogonia.
The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Supposing this view to be correct, the inner calyx-like whorl might be considered either as a repetition of the calycine whorl, or it might be inferred that the corolla was present in the guise of a second calyx. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Wentletraps have beautifully whorled shells and take their name from an old Dutch word that means ‘winding staircase‘.
Women had long hair, but marriageable girls wore their hair twisted up into large whorls on either side of their heads.
Some botanists noted certain similarities such as floral organs in trimerous whorls uniting members of this order and ‘primitive’ monocotyledons (Alisma).
The beading made up swirls and whorls in a pattern that reminded Holly of the decoration on Viking longboats. JUST BETWEEN US
Up to 10 whorls were measured on each shell.
The little white flowers which appear in midsummer are racemed in leafy whorls, followed by small black fruits, popularly called seeds. Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
Perennial scapose herbs with simple stems from short, stocky, horizontal rhizomes bearing a whorl of 3 net-veined, green or mottled, ovate-obovate or elliptical bracts, petiolate or sessile, flower solitary.
Depending on plant growth stage, these tiny cutworms may proceed to the unfolding whorl where they feed on parts of the emerging tassel, or move directly to the ear or leaf axil.
In _Delphinium_, as shown by Braun, [376] the stamens and carpels are members of a continuous spiral series, and in the double balsam an extra corolline whorl is produced, without the suppression of the stamens, in the following manner: the ordinary stamens are replaced by petals, the carpels by stamens, while an additional whorl of carpels is produced at the summit of the axis. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The lenticular, keeled conch form and evolute, coarsely plicate juvenile whorls of Eoprodromites were anticipated by the Pseudarietitinae.
This system means that people who have two copies of the 'D' gene will be right-handed (as well as having hair that whorls clockwise and a 'normal' brain configuration).
The French botanists, following Dunal and Moquin, attribute an increase in the number of whorls in the corolla, and other parts of the flower, to a process which they call chorisis, and they consider the augmentation to be due to the splitting of one petal, for instance, into several; -- somewhat in the same manner as one may separate successive layers of talc one from the other. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The cases referrible to this head may be ranged under two sections according as the increase is due to plurality of ordinarily single organs, or to an increase in the number of verticils or whorls. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
But over that winter we produced something like 600 sherds of pottery, a collection of late Bronze Age metalwork, spindlewhorls, loom weights, and animal bone.
The only lineage that has survived is the horsetails, which are herbaceous and share characters with their extinct progenitors such as articulate stems with microphylls arranged in whorls.
Trillium species are characterized by a single trimerous flower subtended by a whorl of three leaves.
The beading made up swirls and whorls in a pattern that reminded Holly of the decoration on Viking longboats. JUST BETWEEN US
The big vertical Global Roses in Bloom is all luscious, tumbling, whorling brushwork comprising a rough circular mass of globular, grapelike clusters.
The histology is similar and consists of a cellular spindle cell lesion with whorls.
Trillium species are characterized by a single trimerous flower subtended by a whorl of three leaves.
What's there is a furling, shimmering loop of ice, whorled loosely like a bundle of ribbon, not neatly wound — instead hastily stuffed in a brown paper bag by a clerk. A Winter Gift
The first advance is to a definite number of parts and a permanently shortened axis, in the arrangement termed hypogynous, in which all the whorls are quite distinct from each other. Darwinism (1889)
These creases are in turn overlaid by circles and whorls of black thread stitching.
More like a circular cloud of dense, black vapor it seemed, with whorls of mist escaping in tentacular wisps, than a literal devilfish. Conan Of The Isles
When viewed from above, the shells appear to represent small piles of pebbles, with the smallest ones on the upper spire and the largest ones on the body whorl.
Here I got a pallah antelope, and a very strange flower called “katende,” which was a whorl of seventy-two flowers sprung from a flat, round root; but it cannot be described. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
This, in turn was surrounded by several whorls of bracts that many homologize with petals and sepals in flowering plants.
For him it is the sanctum housing a god: a speckled marble, with galactic whorls of light in its core.
Apart from this, botanists are generally agreed that the concrescence of parts of the flower-whorls -- in the gynaeceum as the seed-covering, and in the corolla as the seat of attraction, more than in the androecium and the calyx -- is an indication of advance, as is also the concrescence that gives the condition of epigyny. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Three beautiful specimens are assigned to this new species, which is characterized by step-like whorls, coarse and prominent collabral costae and spiral caring on the ramp, and a columellar lip with two folds.
Shell large, rather thin, turbinated, spu*e elevated, convex; whorls numerous, rounded on the angle, rudely nodose and sloping to the suture, which is sharply cut but irregular. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
The cells may be arranged in a nodular or whorled pattern.
For example, imagine each whorl of a fingerprint as a separate chunk of information.
Rather, the R gene dictates nonrandom distribution of handedness and whorling traits only with respect to the left-right body axis.
In the third whorl the stamens have petaloid cells on their filaments and no homeotic transformation is observed.
The whorls are posteriorly gibbose or tumid at the sutures, and the callus is less spreading than in others of the genus. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
Fingerprints were lifted from the bottle's neck, but the ridge detail - the smudge that reveals the print's loops and whorls - was of lackluster quality.
He stared at the lovely black and red walls, appreciating the whorls and fine-grained texture of the jewood panels. THE BROKEN GOD
Spiral phyllotaxis patterns have only parastichies, whereas whorled patterns have both orthostichies and parastichies.
The gerontic whorl of gastropod genera of the subfamily Mitchelliinae is twisted both outwards and backwards, but not upwards as in members of the subfamily Scoliostomatinae.
Shell short, broadly fusiform; spire and mouth equal; whorls seyen, the first nuclear, the other regularly sloping above, obsoletely nodose on the angle and tapering in advance. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Jordan stared up at his ceiling, contemplating dust whorls.
Both the stems and leaves, which occur in whorls at the node, are covered in hooks; these are thought to aid attachment to their support and allow the plant to climb without twining.
A white archway, over which clung coiling whorls of the vines, gave passage through the hedge.
The beautiful nautilus shell is white to orange, with white stripes and a central, black whorl.
Our results indicate that warm temperatures and moderate to high productivity are associated with larger shells and wider whorls.
A similarly heightened, highly poetic, sensibility invades the etchings that began in the 1980s, black whorls and stippled textures fanatically worked, the artist relishing the "element of danger and mystery" that accompanies slipping a heavily worked plate into acid. Lucian Freud obituary
The plant has woody stems, whorls of lance-shaped leaves, and long dense spikes of tubular-shaped light blue, purple, pink, or white flowers from which bees make wonderful honey.
In other cases the variations in size are of a less general character, and affect certain organs of a whorl in a relative manner, as, for instance, in the case of didynamous or tetradynamous stamens, where two or four stamens are longer than their fellows, the long or short stamens and styles of di - and tri-morphic flowers, &c. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
We recognized headwaiters and porters, pool boys and cabaret singers, whorled barnacles for fingertips. Passeridae
The upper regions of the stem have a characteristic square-shaped cross-section with long internodes separating whorls of elliptical to oblanceolate leaves.
In other cases the variations in size are of a less general character, and affect certain organs of a whorl in a relative manner, as, for instance, in the case of didynamous or tetradynamous stamens, where two or four stamens are longer than their fellows, the long or short stamens and styles of di - and tri-morphic flowers, &c. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Following Augustin Pyranius De Candolle, botanists have applied the term cohesion to the coalescence of parts of the same organ or of members of the same whorl; for instance, to the union of the sepals in a gamosepalous calyx, or of the petals in a gamopetalous corolla. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Plants are characterized as having unisexual flowers and dichotomously forked leaves arranged in crowded whorls.
= -- An increased number of stamens frequently accompanies the corresponding alterations in other whorls, and seems, if anything, to be more frequent among monocotyledonous plants than among dicotyledonous ones; thus, we occasionally find tetramerous flowers in _Crocus_, _Hyacinthus_, _Tulipa_, _Iris_, Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Laevistrombus, however, has a different shell form with a smooth rounded shoulder and varices on early whorls, characters not known for Austrombus.
Three sepals, three petals, twice three stamens, three styles, a three-celled ovary, the flower growing out from a whorl of three leaves, make the naming of wake-robins a simple matter to the novice.
As two patterns of the same type cannot form an accidental whorl, the impression must be classified as a tented arch. The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses
The foliage, as before hinted, is in the form of a whorl, there being no root leaf, and the soft appearance of the whole plant is due to its downiness, which extends to and includes the calyx. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The flowers of the outer whorl of the head generally have five elongated petals united to form straplike structures and are restricted to the periphery of the radiate head.
Another characteristic of this species and its relatives is that as they grow they resorb the inner walls of their shells that is, the previous outer walls that became the inner walls after they were covered by subsequent whorls. New year, new snail: Theodoxus fluviatilis
The shells are elongated spirals, with eight whorls and an estimated average aperture-to-length ratio of 28 percent.
The flowers are produced in terminal clusters, one large flower being surrounded by a whorl of smaller ones; they are of a rich purplish-blue inside the corolla, which is rotate; the segments (mitre-shaped) and the spaces between are prettily furnished with a feathery fringe; the wide tube is also finely striped inside; the calyx is tubular, having long awl-shaped segments; the stems are procumbent, firm (almost woody), short jointed, and thickest near the top. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
They include a bizarre grand piano, not only reconstructed by Philip Webb but in addition decorated by Kate Faulkner with playing-card pips, mottoes and whorls of gilt gesso-work.
A full quarter of the hindward whorl was gone, sliced off cleanly. The Moon Pool
The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
The spikelets are sessile, 3 to 12 flowered, 2 to 3-seriate, secund, laterally compressed and forming digitate whorled or capitate spikes, not joined at the base; rachilla continuous between the flowering glumes. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
For other illustrations see multiplication of whorls, petalody; see also Moquin, loc. cit., p. 350. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The shells showed severe abrasion of the whorls, whereas their apertural margins were more resistant and were subjected to almost no abrasion.
Inferred ancestral features include more than two whorls (or series) of tepals and stamens, stamens with protruding adaxial or lateral pollen sacs, several free, ascidiate carpels closed by secretion, extended stigma, extragynoecial compitum, and one or several ventral pendent ovule (s). A Disclaimer for Behe?
Five leaves per plant were removed from the first and second whorls and carefully stuck to filter paper with a small strip of double-sided adhesive tape.
The patterns of whorls, arches, and loops on the ends of the fingers are unique to each person, and virtually indelible since superficial burns, cuts, or abrasions do not alter them.
However, the initial whorl of these gastropods is unknown and therefore it is unknown whether it is tightly or openly coiled.
Benches of the same dark wood as the overlays, carved with simple whorls and curves, were pushed up against each wall flanking the doors.
Women were often buried with spindle whorls, rocchetti (small, spool-shaped terra-cotta objects thought to have been used in weaving or as stamping devices), and fibulae. Umbrian Tombs
The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
At high elevations a healthy pine will have up to seven or eight whorls, Proctor said.
The shells are 5-10 mm high, possess up to eight or nine whorls, and exhibit a fine axial ribbing (collabral threads).
There were fascicles of spindle cells sometimes arranged in a whorled pattern or admixed with thick collagen fibers.
Following Augustin Pyranius De Candolle, botanists have applied the term cohesion to the coalescence of parts of the same organ or of members of the same whorl; for instance, to the union of the sepals in a gamosepalous calyx, or of the petals in a gamopetalous corolla. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The whorls of bloom issue from half-globular arrangements of buds and persistent calyces; each flower is an inch long; corolla ringent, or gaping; helmet, or upper division, linear; the seed organs are longer; the calyx tubular, having five minute teeth, being striped and grooved; the whole head, or whorl, is supported by a leafy bract, the leaflets being of a pale green colour, tinted with red. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
In the proposed Burke Branch Wilderness, for instance, visitors can discover six-foot-tall cinnamon ferns, the rare whorled pogonia, and the last known mesic barren in North America.
Basal leaves and flowers initiate from a tuberous rhizome and three green cauline leaves arranged in a whorl form an involucre around the developing flower.
Inferred ancestral features include more than two whorls (or series) of tepals and stamens, stamens with protruding adaxial or lateral pollen sacs, several free, ascidiate carpels closed by secretion, extended stigma, extragynoecial compitum, and one or several ventral pendent ovule (s). A Disclaimer for Behe?
Such infelicitous phrasing is, as we've often seen, indicative of an eddy or whorl under the surface of the poem. The Times Literary Supplement
The great blue canvas of the Pacific was stained with pale brown tide lines, circles, whorls and blotches.
Around these reproductive organs is the perianth, usually consisting of an outer whorl of sepals and an inner whorl of petals.
We look at specific areas and find patterns—deltas, whorls, arches, loops—and the core, the centermost part of the fingerprint. HOUSE RULES
The result is that the two outer whorls are petals and the two inner ones are stamens.
Another external clue seems to be hair whorling anti-clockwise on the head, which is now also thought to indicate the presence of the ‘C’ gene.
Basal leaves and flowers initiate from a tuberous rhizome and three green cauline leaves arranged in a whorl form an involucre around the developing flower.
It was a world inhabited by sea creatures and whorled growths, forms with a pleasing balance of rigid symmetry and organic irregularity. Wolfram Blog : Hybrid Logos and a Fortunate Mistake
So reducing whorl root stress focus may distribute to improve bolt intensity and life.
His hair had dried in bronze streaks and whorled over my breasts like the petals of a Chinese chrysanthemum. Sick Cycle Carousel
The ancestral state in other characters is equivocal: e.g., bisexual vs. unisexual flowers, whorled vs. spiral floral phyllotaxis, presence vs. absence of tepal differentiation, anatropous vs. orthotropous ovules. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Gerst.; but the last whorl is more inflated, and the surface of the shell is not malleated or lirate. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
They may then deviate from a Fibonacci pattern and tend to form approximate whorls of three organs or have a somewhat irregular arrangement.
This duplication may either be accounted for on the theory of chorisis above alluded to, or by supposing that the extra corolline whorl is due to a series of confluent petalodic stamens; that the latter is the true explanation, in certain cases at least, is shown by some flowers of Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Small whorled pogonia is currently designated as Threatened in its entire range.
Leaves simple, alternate, rarely opposite or whorled, petiolate or subsessile; stipules often united to a sheath (ocrea). Find Me A Cure
She refuses to discover anatomy in the whorls of a jonquil. The Mystic in a Rage of Verse
With an image size of 4 by 3 inches, it evokes the distinctive whorls of fingerprints as well as the terraced topography of a rugged landscape.
Vivi couldn't see how anything could go wrong, and never thought of the long-term tenacity of the Director, who was already pondering wearisome sporadic whorl-checks of white-starred bays for years to come. The Elvis Latte
Branches are capillary, stiff and spreading, horizontally verticillate or subverticillate, the lowest whorl consisting of five to sixteen or seventeen branches and the others from three to nine, shining, swollen at the point of insertion and provided with a glandular scar a little above the point of insertion; branchlets are very close, appressed to the rachis of the branch never drooping or spreading, each bearing two to five spikelets. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The most distinctive overall fingerprint patterns (arches, loops, and whorls) occur on the pads of the fingers, thumbs, and toes.
Thirty terminal shoot segments were harvested randomly from the last whorl of branches at the top of the trees.
Histologically, thick collagen bundles were seen, characteristically whorling around vessels in a fibrotic stroma.
Mid-whorl gently convex bearing three coarse spiral cords, the uppermost of which forms an angulation, the base is not preserved.
= -- Numerical inequality in the case of the pistil, as compared with the other whorls of the flower, is of such common occurrence, under ordinary circumstances, that in some text-books it is looked on as the normal condition, and a flower which is isomerous in the outer whorls is by some writers not considered numerically irregular if the number of the carpels does not coincide with that of the other organs. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Flowers of Nigella have a conspicuous perianth, differentiated into an outer whorl of five white, petaloid sepals and an inner whorl of eight, stalked nectaries.
In this capacity, it came to bear a very wide variety of cutting surfaces, from the inferognathals of arthrodire placoderms to the bizarre spiral symphysial tooth whorls of Helicoprion.
Sepals and petals in the outer whorls are not sexual organs, but may serve to attract pollinators.
The slight angulation or keel of the body whorl is visible in the picture below. Archive 2008-08-01
Shell large, rather thin, turbinated, spu*e elevated, convex; whorls numerous, rounded on the angle, rudely nodose and sloping to the suture, which is sharply cut but irregular. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and few-flowered corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds.
The strong lateral constriction at the beginning of the gerontic whorl is also a diagnostic shell feature of this subfamily.
Increased number of parts in the calycine, corolline, and carpellary whorls respectively.] Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Adesmy, moreover, was by the Belgian savant said to be homologous when it occurred between members of the same whorl, _e. g._ between the sepals of an ordinary monosepalous calyx, or heterologous when the separation took place between members of different whorls, as when the calyx is detached from the ovary, &c. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
The staminodes and the adjacent carpels in ABFs form a continuous ring and are inserted on a single whorl.
The black whorled band framing the title is aggressive in its starkness and stylization.
The whorls are plicate, with a necklace-like series of nodules at the sutures; and the shell is covered with dark red-brown spots, suggestive of its specific name. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
The _panicle_ is oblong to pyramidal, flaccid, open or contracted erect or inclined, 2 to 8 inches; rachis is hairy or glabrous; branches are very fine filiform or capillary, more or less whorled, lower six inches long; branchlets are still finer and capillary. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The known Anguispira species are conchologically variable, especially in spire height and peripheral angulation of the body whorl. Discidae
I feel the familiar signs, I feel the warmth at the base of the shell-like whorl.
I looked at the top of it, thinking how I loved the small whorl on the crown where a cowlick was concealed in the thick tangle of red curls. DOWNTOWN
He sat and stared at the desk in front of him, the creamy whorls in the wood, the tanned grain.
The last whorl is acutely angulate posteriorly, and the spire is tabulated, giving to the shell a peculiar truncate appearance. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
The six subequal tepals are arranged in two whorls and horizontally spread.
The plant has woody stems, whorls of lance-shaped leaves, and long dense spikes of tubular-shaped light blue, purple, pink, or white flowers from which bees make wonderful honey.
The only lineage that has survived is the horsetails, which are herbaceous and share characters with their extinct progenitors such as articulate stems with microphylls arranged in whorls.
Scoring whitely their tracery of intricate lines, the groups go by in whorls, in angles, in sweeping circles, and the ice shrinks beneath them; here a fairy couple slide along, waving and bowing and swinging together; far away some recluse in his pleasure sports alone with folded arms, careening in the outward roll like the mast of a phantom-craft; everywhere inshore clusters of ruddy-cheeked boys race headlong with their hawkey-sticks, and with their wild cries, making benders where the ice surges in a long swell: and constantly in The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
Rapid growth of the inner and basal parts of the apertural margin during their late shell ontogeny caused twisting of the gerontic whorl both outwards and backwards.
Women had long hair, but marriageable girls wore their hair twisted up into large whorls on either side of their heads.
Heads on discoid plants have an extra whorl of disc florets instead of ray florets.
Down the mountain-slopes, like a whorl of shining dust blown before the wind, a crimson, conoid cloud came dancing. The Bloody Crown of Conan
The inflorescences are composed of whorls of small, whitish, zygomorphic flowers, with seeds disposed in up to four nutlets of about 0 • 4 x 1 • 1 mm.
Here for a moment it was lost in a damp hollow full of a high growth of mares-tail (_equisetum_), that curious whorled relic of ancient days; driven from that by a regular course of beating the ground, it led its pursuers upward among rough tumbled stones where the brambles tripped them, and here they lost it for a time. Cutlass and Cudgel
The whorl of concentric circles behind them could represent Hollywood or heaven.
These younger descendants differ from Goniatites in their evolute inner whorls, their wider external lobe, and their higher median saddle.
So if, for example, W = 2, that means that the diameter of the tube after a single revolution is twice what it was one whorl before.
I looked at the top of it, thinking how I loved the small whorl on the crown where a cowlick was concealed in the thick tangle of red curls. DOWNTOWN
Paosia differs from the enigmatic and poorly defined Pterodonta by having a much less globose adult last whorl, lower spire, anterior end of outer lip projected and incurved, a more sinuous growth line, and in lacking an umbilicus.
Their perigonium consists of two trimerous whorls of tepals, or conversely of a perianth comprising calyx and corolla.
Branches are effuse, fine, capillary (more so than in S. coromandelianus), obliquely ascending, never stiff and horizontal, verticillate or irregularly subverticillate, the lowest whorl of five to twelve and the others three to seven branches; the rachis of the branches is obscurely scaberulous, slightly swollen at the point of insertion; branchlets are never appressed to the branch, always drooping and spreading on all sides, and bearing two to four spikelets. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The wafers were sealed inside plastic bags and bore the whorls of the fingers that had pressed them.
He says the whorls remind him of a cartographical system still undiscovered.
Morren, however, seems to have considered the additional segments as repetitions of the corolline whorl, though he describes a central mass as the column bearing a "_souvenir_ of the anther. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
She threw her arms in the air, where they flickered and whorled like ribbons in the wind. Wired
The bandit walked another step, unknowing, then his mouth fell open and he looked down at the sharp whorled spike that had seemingly grown out of his heart. Zombies vs. Unicorns
Cool oases carpet the valley after the gentle Touzlimt Pass, and amazing whorls and swirls of strata arc across the eastern mountains.
And then I tapped the tip here and there to cover up any areas of white that the whorls might have missed, just in case the scanner was looking at a specific sector instead of eyeballing the oval in its entirety.
Primordia of the corolla, androecium, and gynoecium arise in three successive whorls.
Every node bears a whorl of leaves but the number of leaves in a whorl is smaller than the number of ribs on the axis.
The pad of the finger is generally defined as the spot where the whorl of the fingerprint is located.

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