Whorl

1. n. & v. The fly of a spindle.
2. n. & v. A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
3. n. & v. A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.