whorled

How To Use whorled In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• 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?
• 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
• 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 black whorled band framing the title is aggressive in its starkness and stylization.
• 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
• 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.