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

I've grown especially fond of the bean y queso, a fat, bulging tube filled with a creamy mash of Peruvian beans whorled with molten white cheese and a smoky salsa verde.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2019

Even so, the idea of a whorled ancestral flower shocked some people, says Hervé Sauquet, a lead author on the eFLOWER paper and an evolutionary biologist now at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney, Australia.

From Scientific American • Feb. 6, 2018

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