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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. in the shape of a coil;
[syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Helical \Hel"i*cal\, a. [From Helix.] Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral; as, a helical staircase; a helical spring. -- Hel"i*cal*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

helical adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "helical": O-shaped, ambagious, anfractuous, backhanded, circuitous, circular, cochlear, cochleate, corkscrew, corkscrewy, deviating, deviative, devious, digressive, discursive, excursive, helicoid, indirect, meandering, oblique, orbital, out-of-the-way, rotary, round, roundabout, screw-shaped, scrolled, spiral, spiroid, turbinal, turbinate, verticillate, volute, voluted, whorled