Curl

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NOUN

a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)

American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)

a strand or cluster of hair

VERB

form a curl, curve, or kink

shape one's body into a curl

wind around something in coils or loops

twist or roll into coils or ringlets

play the Scottish game of curling

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