advolute

English

Adjective

advolute

1. (malacology) Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a line (but do not overlap).
   • 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

Latin

Participle

advolūte

1. vocative masculine singular of advolūtus