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

The small whorled pogonia is a globally rare orchid historically found across the eastern states and Ontario.

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

The stupa, with all its primordial power, sits behind an ornate gateway, or torana, whose sculpted beams undulate, their playfulness culminating in whorled volutes, reminiscent of Ionic capitals.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

She steadies herself against the whorled bird’s-eye maple console table in our foyer, my parents’ first flea market find as a couple, years before they had me.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed