In thick woods the lower whorls of branches soon decay for want of light and air, and this leaves a smooth trunk, which rises without a branch, like a beautiful shaft, for a hundred feet or more.
In whorls of three leaves there would be six ranks, in whorls of four, eight, and so on.
The axillary buds develop near the ends of the branchlets, forming apparent whorls of branches around the trunk.
In whorls of six to eight; linear oblanceolate; one inch long.
It sends up a noble shaft, sometimes seven feet high, with many scattered whorls of undulate leaves, and often bears at the summit as many as twenty-five of the beautiful flowers.
The long, crimson trumpets are arranged in whorls about the stems, projecting from many densely crowded bracts.
Opposite, or in whorls of three or four; petioled; ovate to lanceolate; three to five inches long.
Having the form of a disk, as those univalve shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus.
A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell.
A spiral shell having the body whorls rounded or swollen in the middle.
Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells.
One of the prominent ridges or ribs extending across each of the whorls of certain univalve shells.
Having a straight shaft withwhorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules.
Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.
Spiral with the whorls decreasing rapidly from a large base to a pointed apex; -- said of certain shells.
A tree, in early life with remote regular whorlsof slender branches often clothing the stem to the ground and forming an open narrow pyramid; at maturity 200 deg.
Branchlets not in one plane; fruit a berry (leaves needle-shaped, in whorls of 3 in No.
A tree, while young with slender horizontal or slightly ascending branches in regular whorls usually of 5 branches; at maturity often 100 deg.
The few whorls that remain unmarked with their depth have either escaped this repeated search, or are not represented in the Atlas.
Atlas, in order to give a general view of the sections of the whorls and the chief types of the patterns upon them, all the rest are engraved from M.
Cooper; and the lithographed map, plans, and plates of whorls and balls by Messrs.
Schliemann for this book, frequently describe the decorated whorls as worn and rubbed, especially on the under side and at the point, in some cases "by a circular motion.
Whorls of smoke curled up from almost every part of the old shingle roof.
As he looked, the smoke whorls began to burst into tongues of flame.
For it told of feathery sprays of reddish-brown powder on the expert's desk, and he seemed to see himself, his study lamp in his hand, bending over curious whorls of dust on his own piazza.
Out of the middle of the feathery tuft there grows a single tall stem with whorls of four, five, or six pale purple flowers occurring at intervals.
There are considerable irregularities, however, in this respect, and the number of leaves in different whorls is not always uniform, as may be seen in Lysimachia vulgaris.
In Cycas whorls of scales alternate with large pinnate leaves.
It likes a bed of deep leaf-soil on levels or cool slopes in woodland, where its large white flowers and whorls of handsome leaves look quite at home.
Here a wide bushy growth of Phlomis fruticosa lays out to the sun, covered in early summer with its stiff whorls of hooded yellow flowers--one of the best of plants for a sunny bank in full sun in a poor soil.
From the nodes spring whorls of similar but more slender branches.
The number of spindle-whorls and personal ornaments imply that they were accompanied by their families.
Leaves evergreen, somewhat flattened, arranged in distant whorlsaround the stems, and spreading in all directions.
Clusters in whorls of many leaves around the stem like an umbrella 100.
Leaves simple, evergreen, sessile, in whorls around the stem, which they completely cover (98a.
The branches are very numerous and small, and are not regularly arranged in whorls like most of the narrow-leaved trees.
These whorls are not plentiful in the graves of Chiriqui, but such as have been collected are quite similar in style to those of Mexico and Peru.
The threads were spun upon wooden spindles weighted with whorls of baked clay.
The axis of the shell around which the whorls are coiled is sometimes open or hollow, and the shell is then said to be umbilicated (as in Fig.
In a smaller shirt, the whole body is covered at irregular intervals with whorls of the finest porcupine quill work, edged by a border of interlaced black and white quills, finished with perforated shells.
Central and South American deer of the size of roe-bucks or smaller, with simple spike-like antlers, tufted heads and the hair of the face radiating from two whorls on the forehead so that on the nose the direction is downwards.
The flowers grow in beautiful whorls or circles round the stem.
They grow on a spike in whorls or circles, with five to eight flowers in each circle, and these circles are separated at short distances.
The flowers grow without stalks in whorls or circles close to the stem where the leaves spring from it.
I traced these whorls with my eye, and tried to reproduce them with a ballpoint on paper bags I found under the sink.
They looked like they were made of crushed velvet, like the Niagara Falls souvenir pillow on Auntie's armchair in the living room, which had whorls of paisley trimmed into them.
There are few prettier sights than a company of these elegant flowers rising clear above the surface, their slender stems bearing whorls of the pink blossoms, while the dark green featherlike leaves remain submerged.
Among the finds at Troy, Schliemann recovered some curious two-holed whorls or wheels, in the eyes of which are representations of a horse: he also discovered certain small carved horse-heads.
We have seen that the rudraksha or eye of the god S'iva seeds are usually eleven faceted, and my surmise that the whorls of Troy were universal Eyes is further implied by the group here illustrated.
Schliemann supposes that the thousands ofwhorls found in Troy served as offerings to the tutelary deity of the city, i.
Among the whorls from Troy, Burnouf has deciphered objects which he describes as a wheel in motion; others as the Rosa mystica; others as the three stations of the Sun, or the three mountains.
The Trojan whorls are unquestionably tyres or tours, and the notion of an eye is in some instances clearly imparted to them by radiations which resemble those of the iris.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whorls" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
