WHORL meaning: Circular pattern, often in fingerprints

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word WHORL:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

whorl: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whorl: Merriam-Webster
whorl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
whorl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
whorl: Collins English Dictionary
whorl: Vocabulary.com
Whorl, whorl: Wordnik
whorl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Whorl: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
whorl: Wiktionary
whorl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
whorl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
whorl: Infoplease Dictionary
whorl: Dictionary.com
whorl: Online Etymology Dictionary
Whorl (album), Whorl (biology), Whorl (botany), Whorl (fingerprint), Whorl (mollusc), Whorl: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Whorl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
whorl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
whorl: Rhymezone
Whorl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
whorl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
whorl: FreeDictionary.org
whorl: Mnemonic Dictionary
whorl: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)

whorl: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

whorl: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

whorl: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
whorl: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
Botanical Terms (No longer online)
whorl: Rhododendron Glossary
Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
whorl: Natural History Terms

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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.

Similar:

gyre, curlicue, coil, ringlet, volute, spiral, scroll, helix, curl, lock, more...

Opposite:

spiral, helix, gyre

Types:

spiral, helical, spiral-helical, double helical, corkscrew, spiral-twist, more...

Phrases:

body whorl, Spindle whorl, Hair whorl, whorl feet, whorl foot, more...

Adjectives:

last, outer, first, inner, single, penultimate, second, final, largest, third, body

Colors:

indigo, turquoise, lavender, emerald, coral, more...