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

• The density and size of whorls are related to sedimentation rate.
  螺旋的疏密、大小与相对沉积速度有关。
• 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。
• The clear cell change is usually diffusely seen, and meningothelial whorls may not be apparent.
  细胞的透明变常常是弥漫可见，而脑膜上皮细胞的轮状结构可能不很明显。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Analysis of Double Loop Whorls of The Left-Handed Han Nationality
  汉族左利的双箕斗纹分析
• 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。
• Climbing deciduous shrub with fragrant yellow ( later orange) flowers in terminal whorls; southeastern United States.
  一种落叶的缠绕灌木，花芳香、黄色（后变成桔色）、在顶端轮生；产自美国东南部。
• Dermatofibroma is a common benign tumor characterized by close whorls of fibrous tissue with abundant spindle-shaped fibroblastic cells.
  皮肤纤维瘤是以富含梭形成纤维性细胞的致密涡状纤维组织为特征的常见良性肿瘤。