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