• Volute

    Origin

    From French and Italian, from Latin volūta, from the feminine of volūtus, perfect passive participle of volvō.

    Full definition of volute

    Noun

    volute

    (plural volutes)
    1. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
    2. (zoology) The spirls or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
    3. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family .----
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