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advolute

advolute adjective: having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a line (but do not overlap).

Adjective

advolute

  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

Questions about advolute

What does advolute mean?
Advolute means having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a line (but do not overlap).
What part of speech is advolute?
Advolute is an adjective.

Words near advolute in the dictionary

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  3. advoked
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  5. advoking
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  8. advolutions
  9. advoutrer
  10. advoutrers
  11. advoutress

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