whorled

1. 1.

   in the shape of a coil

   Synonymscoilinghelicalspiralspiralingvolutevolutedturbinate

   Similarcoiled
2. 2.

   forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem)

   Synonymsverticillateverticillated

   Similarcyclic

Other forms of whorled

comparative

whorledder·

superlative

whorleddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whorled

What does whorled mean?

whorled means "in the shape of a coil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whorled?

whorled has 1 syllable: whorled.

What is another word for whorled?

Close synonyms include coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is whorled a common word?

whorled is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.