whorls

英 [wɜːlz]

美 [wɜrlz]

n.  螺旋状图案; 螺纹; 轮，轮生体(环生于植物茎部的叶、花等)
whorl的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (指纹等的)涡，螺旋状
  Awhorlis a spiral shape, for example the pattern on the tips of your fingers.
  1. He stared at the whorls and lines of her fingertips.
     他盯着她指尖的涡纹和流纹。
  2. ...dense whorls of red-purple flowers.
     层层叠叠的紫红色花朵

双语例句

• Arranged in or forming whorls or a whorl. botany; not cyclic; especially having parts arranged in spirals rather than whorls.
  轮生的，有毛轮的轮状排列或者轮生的植物学；不是轮生的；特别是有排成螺旋而不是排成轮生体的部分。
• He stared at the whorls and lines of her fingertips.
  他盯着她指尖的涡纹和流纹。
• There's a broken whorl on the thumb and four whorls on the fingers of the left hand.
  左手的大拇指是个破螺，其他四个指头都是螺。
• Any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives.
  任何属于萝芙木属的灌木或小树，有轮生体的叶子和聚伞花序的花；产生的物质用在医药上，特别是催吐剂和泻剂。
• Methods A case of dedifferentiated liposarcoma with meningothelial like whorls and bone formation was studied by conventional histopathology, immunohistochemistry and literature review.
  方法：应用常规病理和免疫组化对1例伴脑膜上皮样漩涡和骨化的去分化脂肪肉瘤进行临床病理分析并复习相关文献。
• The whorls and ridges on your fingertips can identify you based on what you touch.
  指尖上的螺纹和脊状纹路可以根据您触摸的物体来识别您。
• Juvenile leaves are needlelike; mature leaves are awl-shaped, spreading, and arranged in pairs or in whorls of three.
  幼叶呈针状，成熟叶呈锥状，成对或3叶轮生。
• Deciduous climbing shrub with fragrant yellow-white flowers in axillary whorls.
  一种落叶的蔓延灌木，花芳香、黄白色、在叶腋处轮生。
• A spiral formation, such as one of the whorls of a gastropod shell. screw housing clearance
  螺旋形一种螺旋形状，如一个涡螺壳上的螺旋推运螺旋与壳间间隙
• ( botany) lacking one or more of the four whorls of the complete flower& sepals or petals or stamens or pistils.
  （植物学）缺少完全花的四个轮生体当中的一个或者多个&萼片、花瓣、雄蕊或者雌蕊。