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whorl One of the coils in a molluscan shell. Whorls are most noticeable among Gastropoda and Cephalopoda , in which the shell is a hollow cone that grows only at the apertural end and tends to curl about its vertical axis. In most molluscs the coils form a helix in which each whorl is attached to ...
January 1, 1999; A Dictionary of Zoology
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