1.CFBENDa pattern made of a line that curls out in circles that get bigger and bigger 涡;螺旋状
2.technicalHBP a circular pattern of leaves or flowers on a stem 〔茎部的叶或花的〕轮生体
Examples from the Corpus
whorl• Roz felt the hot tightness within her curling into a whorl of anger.• He sat and stared at the desk in front of him, the creamywhorls in the wood, the tannedgrain.• If you have many whorls, few loops, patterned palms the chances are you will develop duodenal ulcers.• The Cucuteni graves contained vases, beads, spindlewhorls, and three Goddessfigurines in each one.• Other species have squatwhorls, the whole ammonoid being so tightly rolled up as to be almost spherical.• In the whorls of the inflorescence a few juvenile plantlets develop which root readily.• The whorls thus formed are smaller than the submerged form.