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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• Any shrub or small tree of the genus Rauwolfia having leaves in whorls and cymose flowers; yield substances used medicinally especially as emetics or purgatives.
  任何属于萝芙木属的灌木或小树，有轮生体的叶子和聚伞花序的花；产生的物质用在医药上，特别是催吐剂和泻剂。
• The whorls and ridges on your fingertips can identify you based on what you touch.
  指尖上的螺纹和脊状纹路可以根据您触摸的物体来识别您。
• 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。
• Methods A case of dedifferentiated liposarcoma with meningothelial like whorls and bone formation was studied by conventional histopathology, immunohistochemistry and literature review.
  方法：应用常规病理和免疫组化对1例伴脑膜上皮样漩涡和骨化的去分化脂肪肉瘤进行临床病理分析并复习相关文献。
• 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。
• There's a broken whorl on the thumb and four whorls on the fingers of the left hand.
  左手的大拇指是个破螺，其他四个指头都是螺。