Usually means: Shell with few, loosely coiled whorls.
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  1. paucispiral: Merriam-Webster
  2. paucispiral: Wordnik
  3. paucispiral: Wiktionary
  4. Paucispiral, paucispiral: Dictionary.com
  5. Paucispiral: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. paucispiral: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Paucispiral: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. paucispiral: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Paucispiral: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paucispiral)

▸ adjective:  (biology, malacology, conchology) Having few spirals or whorls.

Similar:
multispiral, paucispicular, polygyrous, gyroconic, pauciserial, turriconic, evolute, serpenticonic, paucispecific, quadrispiral, more...

Opposite:
multispiral, polispiral, many-spiraled

Types:
monotrichous, lophotrichous, amphitrichous, peritrichous, paucitrichous, more...

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Similar:
multispiral, paucispicular, polygyrous, gyroconic, pauciserial, turriconic, evolute, serpenticonic, paucispecific, quadrispiral, more...

Opposite:
multispiral, polispiral, many-spiraled

Types:
monotrichous, lophotrichous, amphitrichous, peritrichous, paucitrichous, more...



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