advolute

English

Adjective

advolute

  1. (malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a line (but do not overlap).
    • 2013, Neil H. Landman, Kazushige Tanabe, Richard Arnold Davis, Ammonoid Paleobiology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 842:
      [...] of the same whorl, measured in a line parallel to the plane of bilateral symmetry; in a gyroconic or advolute shell, the most dorsal point most [...]

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Participle

advolūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of advolūtus
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