Definitions for whorl

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whorl whorl

Spelling: [hwurl, hwawrl, wurl, wawrl]

IPA: /ʰwɜrl, ʰwɔrl, wɜrl, wɔrl/

Whorl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in whorl (hlorw).

Definitions for whorl

noun

1. a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; verticil.
2. one of the turns or volutions of a spiral shell.
3. anything shaped like a coil.
4. one of the central ridges of a fingerprint, forming at least one complete circle.
5. Textiles. a flywheel or pulley, as for a spindle.

Origin of whorl

1425-75; late Middle English whorle, whorvil, wharwyl, Old English hwyrfel, equivalent to hweorfa whorl of a spindle + -el noun suffix

Examples for whorl

Calyx absent or represented by a whorl of silky hairs (pappus).

But he saw a glimmer in a whorl of darkness, like a ball of living fire.

The great nebula in Orion was a whorl of shimmering star dust.

He states that it is cut from the suture, where a whorl joins the preceding one.

The leaves are very narrow, usually four in a whorl, and very unequal.

The spore-clusters, at the tips of the branches, are surrounded by a whorl of branchlets.

The Mexican whorl has a Mexican style of ornamentation, etc.

The sole difference is in the size and material of the whorl.

How old is the very top, down to the first whorl of branches?

Let us suppose a whorl of eight leaves, surmounted by a similar whorl of eight.