whorled
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If there are three or more leaves connected at a node, the leaf arrangement is classified as whorled.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Popp, Marcus, Doubleday, and Gange returned to the site together this spring and confirmed the presence of small whorled pogonia, which was in bloom at the time.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
Occasionally lone cicadas whorled around in flight like her little fairy toy, Bluette.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021
Its whorled shoots are tiny, typically shorter than eight inches and less than an inch thick.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2019
Then it resumes, the twin wands of its horns extending, dragging its whorled shell atop the sled of its body.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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