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gyres
noun
(gyre)
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
Synonyms:
coil
,
curl
,
curlicue
,
ringlet
,
roll
,
scroll
,
whorl
,
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whorl
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ringlet
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coil
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curl
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curlicue
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scroll
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roll
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anticyclonic
,
subpolar
,
rings
,
landmasses
,
planktonic
,
planetesimal
,
hydrologic cycle
,
sargassum
,
oceans
,
vortices
,
rills
,
amundsen sea
,
asthenosphere
,
moulins
,
periodicities
,
deglaciation
,
advection
,
supercontinent
,
crinoids
,
lithosphere
,
faunas
,
eddies
,
silversides
,
hydrosphere
,
benthos
,
isopods
,
rifting
,
abiogenesis
,
green alga
,
diatoms
,
anticyclones
,
geosphere
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aeolian
,
jovian
,
ostracods
,
tropopause
,
zooplankton
,
syrtis major
,
planetoids
,
gastropods
,
oort cloud
,
perturbation
,
polynya
,
crustal plate
,
continental drift
,
sandfish
,
singularities
,
soliton
,
flatfishes
,
photosphere
,
isotherms
,
planktonic algae
,
claystone
,
ocean sunfish
,
vorticity
,
meridional
,
prokaryotes
,
bilaterally symmetrical
,
bryozoans
,
intertidal
,
conodonts
,
icecaps
,
subantarctic
,
phanerozoic
,
copepod
,
infinities
,
massifs
,
whitecap
,
gorgonians
,
sargasso sea
,
concretion
,
landforms
,
seamount
,
seiche
,
polyhedra
,
evaporite
,
damselfish
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pteropods
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torus
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protists
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nebulosity
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poleward
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airglow
,
laurasia
,
cirrus cloud
,
isobars
,
sediments
,
dipoles
,
oceanic
,
gondwanaland
,
prominences
,
radula
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gravitons
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gyres
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