volute

  1. Noun.  (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
  2. Noun.  (zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
  3. Noun.  (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the (super)family ''Volutidae''.

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