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

Just down the windy road, South Lake Tahoe was evacuated on Monday and was dead quiet as ash whorled through smoke like snow flakes would in a winter fog.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2021

Occasionally lone cicadas whorled around in flight like her little fairy toy, Bluette.

From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2021

Between the sight lines of my raised knees his ear appeared, an amazing organ all its own, whorled and flanged, translucent in the bright lights.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides