What is "whorls"

Usage examples of "whorls".

As the leaves in the whole family of the Acanthaceae stand either opposite one another or in whorls, and as these are of equal size, the great inequality between the first two leaves is a singular fact.

The luminosity playing upon the glass whorls and sunbursts intensified.

Darkly confused whorls blemished the enveloping mists, and there was an uneasy shifting of weight, a stirring among the spectators.

Quick, restless pulses of light danced upon her thorny crown, flashed along her glassy whorls and sunbursts.

The body was covered with the swirls and whorls of blue and red runes.

Arkoniel touched them reverently, tracing spirals, whorls, and crescents, then shyly reached down to where their bodies were still joined, flesh to flesh.

He squeezed the blood out and rubbed the tiny smear into the whorls of his thumb.

She turned a second glance to a black youth who was sitting on the floor surrounded by whorls of white wires.

Abe could see she wore a beautiful antique ring of turquoise, bound with whorls of beaten silver.