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.

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  • adjective biology, conchology Having few spirals or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.

Etymologies

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pauci- +‎ spiral

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  • whirl-a-few

    August 14, 2010