Figure 301 is classified as a whorl of the double loop type. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses] Reference
The papillary apex is simply the single nuclear whorl, which is rather larger than usual. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
If the opposite finger were a whorl this would be classified as a whorl, and with the same tracing. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses] Reference
It cannot be classified as a whorl as the only recurve is spoiled by the appendage abutting upon it at the point of contact with the line of flow. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses] Reference
Figure 305, although showing an appendage upon each recurve on the left side, is classified as a whorl of the central pocket loop type, with two deltas and a recurve in front of each. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses] Reference
It made a kind of whorl from The New Yorker, March 5, 2007. From Wordnik.com. [brenda hillman | phone booth « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
By the word "whorl" is meant all types of whorls, including plain whorls, central pocket loops, double loops and accidentals. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses] Reference
"She was severely dressed, her hair, iron-grey, piled in a kind of whorl on top of her head. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting For Deborah]
Their sandy curls whorl around their heads like crowns. From Wordnik.com. [Neighbors] Reference
How old is the very top, down to the first whorl of branches?. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The increased number of leaves in a whorl may well be designated as. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Having a whorl on his breast, he has curly locks of hair on his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Let us suppose a whorl of eight leaves, surmounted by a similar whorl of eight. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
He could see the whorl of a fingerprint there, and narrow, nearly invisible cuticles. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Below the flowers there is often a whorl of club-shaped fruits, ¾ in. long, and rose-coloured. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
These adventitious carpels frequently contain imperfect ovules and form a whorl above the normal ones. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The simplest cases of this kind are those in which we meet with an unusual number of leaves in a whorl. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The width of the flower is over 6 in., and the stamens are arranged in a corona-like whorl inside the petals. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
In this instance the whorl next beneath the spiral had twenty-eight branchlets, and that immediately above it thirty. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The antennæ of the male (Fig. 63) are much more conspicuous on account of the whorl of dense, fine, long hairs on each segment. From Wordnik.com. [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference
This flower, with the leaf to which it was axillary, evidently belonged to the whorl beneath, where there was a corresponding deficiency. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
In the whorl there is an illustration of radiating symmetry, while in the spiral arrangement there is a transition to the bilateral symmetry. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Dialysis of margins of individual parts, 70 -- Of margins of parts of same whorl-calyx, 70 -- Of corolla, 71 -- Of stamens, 73 -- Of carpels, 73. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
It is not very material whether the second whorl of organs be regarded as a repetition of the calyx or as a row of petals in the guise of sepals. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
This might have been anticipated from the frequent deficiencies in the staminal whorl in these plants under what are considered to be normal conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
From the analogy of other cases it would appear as if the additional labella in this instance were the representatives of two stamens of the outer whorl. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
In the malformation each series or group of four leaves, with its central branch, is equivalent to half a whorl of the natural plant with its axillary branch. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The following enumeration will suffice to show the genera in which an increased number of petals or perianth-segments in any given whorl most frequently occurs. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
This term is here made use of in the same sense as in descriptive botany, to indicate the isolation of parts of the same whorl; it is thus the opposite of cohesion. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Dr. Allman explains the presence of the supernumerary parts by the supposed production of a whorl of secondary axes between the stamens and the centre of the flower. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
= -- In the preceding sections a reduction in the parts of each individual whorl has been considered without reference to similar diminution in neighbouring verticils. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
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