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whorl

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whorl (wôrl, wûrl)
n.
1. A form that coils or spirals; a curl or swirl.
2. A turn of the cochlea or of the ethmoidal crest.
3. An area of hair growing in a radial manner.
4. One of the circular ridges or convolutions of a fingerprint.
whorl
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Etymology: ME, hwarwy
a spiral turn, such as one of the turns of the cochlea or of the dermal ridges that form fingerprints.
whorl [hwerl]
a spiral arrangement, as in the ridges on the finger that make up a fingerprint.
whorl
a spiral arrangement, as in the hairs that go to make up a cowlick.
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