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Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..

Helix :: Helix (n.) A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

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

Helix :: Helix (n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species..

Helix :: Helix (n.) A nonplane curve whose tangents are all equally inclined to a given plane. The common helix is the curve formed by the thread of the ordinary screw. It is distinguished from the spiral, all the convolutions of which are in the plane..

Spiral :: Spiral (a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix..

Helical :: Helical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring..

Helix :: Helix (n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

Ivy :: Ivy (n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers..

Strombus :: Strombuliform (a.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.

Antihelix :: Antihelix (n.) The curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix. See Ear..

Helicin :: Helicin (n.) A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnaeus.).

Snail :: Snail (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail..

Spirillum :: Spirifer (n.) Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side..

Twist :: Twist (v. i.) To follow a helical or spiral course; to be in the form of a helix.

Helixes :: Helixes (pl. ) of Heli.

Anthelix :: Anthelix (n.) Same as Antihelix.

Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral scroll which forms the chief feature of the Ionic capital, and which, on a much smaller scale, is a feature in the Corinthian and Composite capitals. See Illust. of Capital, also Helix, and Stale..

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