Ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center.

synonym: spiral.

Dutch: rolschelp
Polish: ślimak

A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops.

synonyms: coil, helix, spiral, whorl.

Roget 248: winding etc. v.; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity^†; sinuosity, sinuation^†; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus^†, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages^†; torsion; inosculation^†; reticulation etc. (crossing) 219; rivulation^†; roughness etc. 256.    coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop^†, scallop, escalop^†; kink; ammonite, snakestone^†.    serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.    knot.    ... show more

Dutch: propeller, schroef, helix, krul, schroeflijn, spiraal, spiraallijn

In the shape of a coil.

synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, voluted, whorled.

Polish: helikalny, świdrowaty, helikoidalny, śrubowaty, śrubkowaty, ślimakowaty, spiralny