Main entry: whorl, lock, ringlet, curl
Definition: a strand or cluster of hair
Main entry: Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr., Curl
Definition: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
Main entry: curl, curlicue, coil, gyre, whorl, ringlet, scroll, roll
Definition: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
Definition: form a curl, curve, or kink
Usage: the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling
Main entry: curl
Definition: play the Scottish game of curling
Definition: twist or roll into coils or ringlets
Usage: curl my hair, please
Definition: wind around something in coils or loops
Main entry: draw in, curl, curl up
Definition: shape one's body into a curl
Usage: She curled farther down under the covers; She fell and drew in