involute

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involute (adjective; Latin in, in; volute, spiral): 1. Rolled inwards at margins or edges.

2. (Mollusca) The last whorl of a shell enveloping earlier ones and concealing, or nearly so, the axis or earlier volutions.

See also: convolute, revolute