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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

advolute en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a line (but do not overlap).
    • [...] 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 [...] 2013, Neil H. Landman, Kazushige Tanabe, Richard Arnold Davis, Ammonoid Paleobiology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 842:

Coordinates

evolute · involute · convolute