whorl 的定义
- a circular arrangement of like parts, as leaves or flowers, around a point on an axis; verticil.
- one of the turns or volutions of a spiral shell.
- anything shaped like a coil.
- one of the central ridges of a fingerprint, forming at least one complete circle.
- Textiles. a flywheel or pulley, as for a spindle.
whorl 近义词
spiral
更多whorl例句
- The artist achieves a similar effect without painting in “Round and Round,” in which Easter-egg hues underlie an oval inscribed with fingerprint-like whorls.
- Fig. 66 shows a biconical whorl, and its top is decorated to represent three Swastikas and three burning altars.
- The centers of the crosses are occupied by the central hole of the whorl, while the arms extend to the periphery.
- The specimen represented in fig. 76 is not a spindle-whorl, as shown by the number and location of the holes.
- The whorl shown in fig. 45 is nearly spherical, with two Swastikas in the upper part.
- In this collection is a spindle-whorl, found at 13½ feet (4 meters) depth and belonging to the fourth city.