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curl
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a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
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2. noun
American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)
3. noun
a strand or cluster of hair
4. verb
form a curl, curve, or kink
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