Definitions | whorl |
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- A pattern of concentric circles.
- (botany) A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
- (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
- (archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, cf. 1460.
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