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- noun Plural form of
helix .
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Examples
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Entry tags: strange coincidences, the internet is a series of tubes if you like double helixes ...
intertribal: if you like double helixes... intertribal 2010
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Instead, Bolton and Chappell give us a seething kaleidoscope of fractal patterns, pulsing biomorphic forms, folding petals, sprays of stars, and twisting helixes in acid colours.
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Only a few brave souls have mastered their double helixes that were left and are able to turn on the dormant helixes in their bodies.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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Only a few brave souls have mastered their double helixes that were left and are able to turn on the dormant helixes in their bodies.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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Spiral staircases each side of the stage suggest single helixes waiting for an obliging scientist to hook them up.
Niobe, Regina di Tebe; Faust; The Makropulos Case; Fidelio Fiona Maddocks 2010
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That much only, fists and blossom forged by salt, trellising your wounded helixes against our days.
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If you like to think in terms of double helixes, then biodiversity is the range of different kinds of DNA strands hanging out on the planet.
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Soft, pristine, midnight black helixes who resurrected themselves in the final moments of his life, as if they'd come back from the dead to avenge their murders.
LYES 2009
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Space dust can organise itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another, according to boffins looking for aliens.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Space dust can organise itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another, according to boffins looking for aliens.
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