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type genus of the family Helicidae

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.

A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.

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.

A caulicule or little volute under the abacus of the Corinthian capital.

The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

A genus of land snails, including a large number of species.

The margin of the auricle, a folded rim of cartilage forming the upper part of the anterior, the superior, and the greater part of the posterior edges of the auricle.

The rim of the external aural prominence.

A spiral, as of wire in a coil: (zool.) the snail or its shell: the external part of the ear:-pl. HELICES.

Something that is spiral; the external body of the ear; the snail-shell; in arch., the delicate volute, like the tendril of a vine, which curls over the leaves, and just beneath the abacus of a Corinthian capital.

The outer rim of the ear; the coiled spiral arrangement of certain structures in the invertebrates.

The fold is thus called, which forms the outer circumference or ring of the external ear.

Limax.

The margin of the external ear.

n. [Latin, Greek] A spiral line, as of wire in a coil; something that is spiral;—a little volute under the flowers of the Corinthian capital:—the whole circuit or extent of the external border of the ear;—the snail-shell.