screw-shaped

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According to lore, Archimedes created a device with a revolving screw-shaped blade to pump water against gravity: the Archimedes screw.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2011

Hatched in open sores on cattle, their screw-shaped larvae can literally eat their way through a live steer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vibrio, vib′rī-ō, n. a name given with much laxity to various kinds of more or less screw-shaped Bacteria—also to small nematoid worms, such as cause ear-cockles in wheat.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

German patents were issued in 1878 to R. Muhlberg, of Taucha, for coffee roasters with movable partitions and "screw-shaped declining walls."

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)