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whoremasterly |
whoremonger |
whoreson |
whorish |
whorl |
whorled
| whorled aster
| whorled caraway
| whorled loosestrife
| whorled milkweed
| whorler
whorled
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective whorled has 2 senses
- whorled(s = adj.all) coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted - in the shape of a coil; Array
- whorled(s = adj.all) verticillate, verticillated - forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem); Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
whorled, a.
Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
whorled
ambagious, anfractuous, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose, flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty, verticillate, volute, voluted, winding, wreathlike, wreathy
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