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

• Large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base.
  美国东南一种每年落叶的大型灌木，叶大且茂密，大型乳白色花冠，基部略带紫色。
• The MSCs were in fusiform shape, arranged in bundles or whorls, and can successfully be transdifferentiated into adipocytes, which was confirmed by using Oil Red-O staining.
  体外培养的骨髓间充质干细胞呈梭形，呈束状、漩涡状排列，可成功诱导成脂肪细胞，油红-O染色显示含有脂滴；
• ( 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。
• The growth of a pine shoot is often represented as the springtime elongation of a bud laid down the preceding summer. tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in umbrellalike whorls at ends of twigs.
  松树枝梢的生长常常被说成是上年夏季形成的芽的春日伸长。高大的常绿树种，树冠对称展开，小枝末梢长有伞状针叶。
• 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。
• He stared at the whorls and lines of her fingertips.
  他盯着她指尖的涡纹和流纹。
• For example, the number of pistils was the more frequently increased than organs in the outer whorls.
  比如雌蕊的数目增加通常要比外轮器官数目增加频繁。
• 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。
• Tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in umbrellalike whorls at ends of twigs.
  高大的常绿树种，树冠对称展开，小枝末梢长有伞状针叶。