The axillary buds develop near the ends of the branchlets, forming apparent whorls of branches around the trunk.

One of the men lifted up the goblet so the illumination reflected from it, highlighting subtle rainbow whorls in the surface.

The star-whorled, fan-spread branches droop under the soft wreathsdroop and press flatly to the trunk; presently the point of overloading is reached, there is a soft sough and muffled dropping, the boughs recover, and the weighting goes on until the drifts have reached the midmost whorls and covered up the branches.

Its construction, which was intricate, resembled the whorls of a sea-shell.

Above floated gold and gray and silver-edged cloudsbelow shone a whorl of dusky, ruddy bronze haze, gradually thickening.

"That is my arrow-maker," he cried, showing me a round stone whorl.

The word "cyclone" by itself suggests a ghastly whorl of high vapours, and the addition of "anti" seems to make it even more hostile.

This is produced by the habit of the tree of throwing out a whorl of imperfect branches just below the union of the main branches with the trunk.