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。
• Forming one or more whorls ( especially a whorl of leaves around a stem).
  形成一个或多个轮生体（特别是绕着干生长的轮生叶）。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He stared at the whorls and lines of her fingertips.
  他盯着她指尖的涡纹和流纹。
• 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 primordia of stamens initiate nearly in two whorls.
  雄蕊原基近两轮发生。