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What is the noun for whorling?

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whorl
  1. A pattern of concentric circles.
  2. (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
  3. (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
  4. (archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle (attested in English from 1460)
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The intricate whorl of the shell fascinated the marine biologist as she studied its unique spiral pattern.”
whorls
  1. plural of whorl
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Cool oases carpet the valley after the gentle Touzlimt Pass, and amazing whorls and swirls of strata arc across the eastern mountains.”
      “The six subequal tepals are arranged in two whorls and horizontally spread.”
      “Most contemporary goniatitids had an involute shell with compressed whorls.”
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