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I've got helical seashells, such as mud whelks, which are just knobbly and conical with a helix going up them; and I've got the kind called volutes, which are rounded, swelling or bellying out, and the shell folded around, though I'm sure the underlying skeleton is helical too. I think of volu- as meaning "wrapped" where helic- means "spiral".
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