Whorled \Whorled\, a. Furnished with whorls; arranged in the form of a whorl or whorls; verticillate; as, whorled leaves.
whorled adj 1: like the pattern basic to the human fingerprint [syn: {looped}] 2: in the shape of a coil [syn: {coiling}, {helical}, {spiral}, {spiraling}, {volute}, {voluted}, {turbinate}] 3: forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) [syn: {verticillate}, {verticillated}]