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adj
Having a coiled shell approaching a sphere in shape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, malacology, natural-sciences
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noun
A non-plane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere centred at the cone's vertex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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History
From sphero- + conic.
