Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HE'LIX
HEL-IS-PHER'IC, or HEL-IS-PHER'IC-ALHELL
HE'LIX, n. [Gr. ἑλιξ, a winding.]
- A spiral line; a winding; or something that is spiral; as, a winding staircase in architecture, or a caulicule or little volute under the flowers of the Corinthian capital. In anatomy, the whole circuit or extent of the auricle, or external border of the ear. Encyc.
- In zoology, the snail-shell.
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