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Whorled meaning
Formed from whorls; having whorls.
Example sentences (3)
Their native grasses are giant sacaton while whorled rosinweed grows along the river cobble bars.
The leaves emerge oppositely, each pair at right angles to the previous one (called decussate) or whorled.
The phyllotaxis is usually decussate, rarely whorled (e.g. Fadogia ), or rarely alternate resulting from the suppression of one leaf at each node (e.g. Sabicea sthenula).