whorled

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

whorled
    adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: {coiling}, {helical},
           {spiral}, {spiraling}, {volute}, {voluted}, {whorled},
           {turbinate}]
    2: forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves
       around a stem) [syn: {verticillate}, {verticillated},
       {whorled}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Whorled \Whorled\, a.
   Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or
   whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

47 Moby Thesaurus words for "whorled":
      ambagious, anfractuous, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear,
      cochleate, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose,
      flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional,
      labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose,
      roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate,
      sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile,
      tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty,
      verticillate, volute, voluted, winding, wreathlike, wreathy

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