Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In geology, formed like a top.
  • In botany, twisted or coiled into the form of a screw or helix, as the legumes of the screw-bean, some species of Medicago, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Geol.) Formed or shaped like a top.
  • adjective (Bot.) Coiled into the shape of a screw or a helix.

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