Spirally

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a spiral fashion. not-comparable

    "The bees always alighten at the bottom of the spike, and, crawling spirally up it, sucked one flower after the other."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with spirals wordnet

Example

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"The bees always alighten at the bottom of the spike, and, crawling spirally up it, sucked one flower after the other."

Etymology

From spiral + -ly.

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