Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A fossil snail-shell, as a species of Helix or some related genus.

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Examples

  • Sure you might know what a stalactite (hangs down) and a stalagmite (goes up) are but what about an anthodite and helicite?

    Gadling 2008

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