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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English coiled English uncoiled From un- + coiled.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not coiled
Test large, cylindrical, early portion closely coiled and always completely involute, later and larger portion uncoiled[…]
1946, Joseph Augustine Cushman, The larger fossil Foraminifera of the Panama Canal Zone: