Usually means: Spiral patterns in fingerprints, plants.
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  1. whorls: Merriam-Webster
  2. whorls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. whorls: Vocabulary.com
  4. whorls: Wordnik
  5. whorls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. whorls: Wiktionary
  7. whorls: Dictionary.com
  8. Whorls: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. whorls: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. whorls: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. whorls: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. whorls: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (whorl)

noun:  Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.
noun:  (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
noun:  (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
noun:  (anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.
noun:  A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a pattern of concentric circles.
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