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Gyratory :: Gyratory (a.) Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around..

Ladies'' Tresses :: Ladies' tresses () A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair..

Volution :: Volution (n.) A spiral turn or wreath.

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring..

Twining :: Twining (a.) The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally..

Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells..

Ganoidei :: Ganoidei (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales..

Paucispiral :: Paucispiral (a.) Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell..

Screw :: Screw (n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below..

Anisopleura :: Anisopleura (n. pl.) A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed..

Turbinal :: Turbinal (a.) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; -- applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers..

Mask Shell :: Mask shell () Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture..

Heliciform :: Heliciform (a.) Having the form of a helix; spiral.

Angienchyma :: Angienchyma (n.) Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels..

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.

Antidromous :: Antidromous (a.) Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

Snake :: Snake (v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm..

Air Vessel :: Air vessel () A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheae, of plants spiral vessels..

Cochlea :: Cochlea (n.) An appendage of the labyrinth of the internal ear, which is elongated and coiled into a spiral in mammals. See Ear..

Curl :: Curl (v. i.) To move in curves, spirals, or undulations; to contract in curving outlines; to bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls..

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