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

• Arranged in or forming whorls or a whorl. botany; not cyclic; especially having parts arranged in spirals rather than whorls.
  轮生的，有毛轮的轮状排列或者轮生的植物学；不是轮生的；特别是有排成螺旋而不是排成轮生体的部分。
• 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。
• 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。
• Most of glandular cells became adherent after 24h of culture and formed tightly packed whorls after 4d. Individual cells were polygonal and had a large and round nucleus.
  大部分腺体细胞在接种24h后贴壁，培养后4d左右腺体细胞呈旋涡状排列，单个细胞为多角形，核大而圆。
• ( 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。
• The primordia of stamens initiate nearly in two whorls.
  雄蕊原基近两轮发生。
• 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。
• A spiral formation, such as one of the whorls of a gastropod shell. screw housing clearance
  螺旋形一种螺旋形状，如一个涡螺壳上的螺旋推运螺旋与壳间间隙
• 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。