It terminates anteriorly, or towards the lower part in what is termed the columella, so called because it forms a kind of axis on which the volutions turn.
This term can be strictly applied only to symmetrical shells, signifying that the volutions are parallel to each other in a horizontal direction, as in the Ammonites, &c.
The hollow formed in spiral shells when the inner side of the volutionsdo not join each other, so that the axis is hollow.
The Nautili are known from the Ammonites by the septa being simple, not sinuated as in the latter genus, and in general the volutions of the spire are not visible.
The spire, in descriptions, includes all the volutions above the aperture.
A solid column formed by the inner sides of the volutions of a spiral univalve.
He had read to him the Révolutions de la République romaine, the story of which seemed to him to drag unbearably.
An influential paper which had a great circulation among the Cordeliers was Loustalot's Les Révolutions de Paris.
I trust that you will state all this exactly, because the Journal des Révolutions is the compass of public opinion.
Les Révolutions de Paris," Prudhomme's Journal, the engravings which represent this sort of procession.
Mitre, with the epidermis marbled with brownish-yellow; volutions at their base black; columella five-plaited.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volutions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
