corkscrew : Idioms & Phrases

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corkscrew flower

  • noun perennial tropical American vine cultivated for its racemes of showy yellow and purple flowers having the corolla keel coiled like a snail shell; sometimes placed in genus Phaseolus
    Phaseolus caracalla; snailflower; snail bean; snail-flower; snail flower; Vigna caracalla.
WordNet

Corkscrew starts

  • a spiral staircase around a solid newel.
Webster 1913