a. [f. WHORL sb. + -ED2.] Having, or arranged in, a whorl or whorls; (of leaves, flowers, etc.) verticillate; (of a shell, etc.) convoluted, turbinate.
1776. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., Explan. Terms 392. Verticill[at]us, whorled, many Flowers growing round the Stalk in a Circle.
1828. J. E. Smith, Engl. Flora, II. 59. S[ium] verticillatum, Whorled Water-parsnep. Leaflets in numerous, linear,… whorled segments.
1861. Bentley, Man. Bot., 572. The Galiaceæ are … distinguished … by their whorled exstipulate leaves.
1867. Murchison, Siluria, viii. (ed. 4), 164. The large Whorled Shell … has proved … to be a true Lower-Silurian Maclurea.
1873. Ralfe, Phys. Chem., 17. Crystals which arrange themselves in whorled groups.
So † Whorling, † Whorlish adjs., rare, forming or constituting a whorl.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 55. Comen rede fish mynt … with whorlish circles goyng about the stalck.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. lxxxi. 256. The floures … growing in whorling knoppes rounde aboute the stalkes.
