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。
• One useful anti-cancer drug can effectively erase the whorls and other characteristic marks that give people their distinctive fingerprints.
  一种非常有效的抗癌药物能够清除箩状指纹和其他使指纹与众不同的标志。
• 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。
• ( 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。
• Milkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers.
  美国东部的马利筋，有轮生的窄叶子和白绿色的花。
• Any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves.
  林地里生长的一种银莲花，因为解剖后叶片呈现的美丽螺纹和其迷人的花朵而著称。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。