Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having few whorls or turns: as, the paucispiral operculum of a gastropod; a paucispiral shell. See cut under
operculum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having few spirals, or whorls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology, conchology Having few
spirals orwhorls ; as, a paucispiraloperculum orshell .
Etymologies
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pauci- + spiral
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fbharjo commented on the word paucispiral
whirl-a-few
August 14, 2010