Thesaurus / convolute
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The two first have zigzag passages; the third, channels running in convolute curves.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW UREThe passages here run in convolute curves, the one winding in a spiral to the centre, the other receding from the centre.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW UREThey resemble the Ammonites in internal structure, but instead of being spirally convolute they are merely curved like a horn.
A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUALGEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBYThe more decidedly convolute species with hidden spires are the Atys, Montf.
A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUALGEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBYA spiral shell is said to be discoidal, when the whorls are so horizontally convolute as to form a flattened spire.
A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUALGEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBYOrbicular, convolute, shewing no trace of spire externally; interior divided into cells spirally arranged.
A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUALGEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBYThose which are symmetrically convolute, as the Nautilacea and the Ammonacea, which are spiral; 2nd.
A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUALGEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBYThe ventral part of the whorls of symmetrical convolute shells, is the inner part, that which is nearest to the spire.
A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUALGEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBYIn symmetrical convolute univalves, is one placed near the inner edge of the whorls.
A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUALGEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBYStamens 5, as many as the deciduous petals, these mostly convolute in the bud.
THE MANUAL OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATESASA GRAYWORDS RELATED TO CONVOLUTE
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