whorled

How to use whorled in a sentence

• On the other hand, the whorled character of the core can hardly fail to be recognised.

  Finger Prints | Francis Galton

• The cells composing the whorled filaments are beaded or moniliform, and are prolonged into colourless hair-like points.

  An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope | John William Griffith

• The pretty, close-whorled spirals, placed one against the other on the same level, have a very pleasing general effect.

  The Life of the Fly | J. Henri Fabre

• Here you have a choice between Leaves alternate or clustered and Leaves opposite or whorled.

  Michigan Trees | Charles Herbert Otis

• Evergreen shrubs or trees, leaves opposite or whorled, sessile, scale-like or short-linear; fruit berry-like; seeds 1-3.

  Trees of Indiana | Charles Clemon Deam