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- biologyHaving or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a line (but do not overlap).
[...] 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 [...]
2013, Neil H. Landman, Kazushige Tanabe, Richard Arnold Davis, Ammonoid Paleobiology, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 842
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advolute. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/advolute
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