advolute

English

Adjective

advolute

1. (malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a line.
   • 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 [...]

Coordinate terms

• evolute
• involute
• convolute

Anagrams

• Valetudo, ovulated

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) advolūte

1. vocative masculine singular of advolūtus