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voluted
(encz) | voluted, adj: |
Voluted
(gcide) | Voluted \Vo*lut"ed\, a.
Having a volute, or spiral scroll.
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voluted
(wn) | voluted
adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical,
spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled,
turbinate] |
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convoluted
(encz) | convoluted,komplikovaný adj: Zdeněk Brožconvoluted,spletitý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
voluted
(encz) | voluted, adj: |
coiling helical spiral spiraling volute voluted whorled
(gcide) | coiled \coiled\ (koild), adj.
curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals;
as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on
the deck. Opposite of uncoiled.
Note: [Narrower terms: {coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling,
volute, voluted, whorled}; {convolute rolled
longitudinally upon itself};curled, curled up;
{involute closely coiled so that the axis is
obscured)}; looped, whorled; twined, twisted;
convoluted; {involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves
in bud: having margins rolled inward)}; wound]
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Convoluted
(gcide) | Convoluted \Con"vo*lu`ted\, a.
1. Having convolutions.
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beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn.
--Pennant.
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2. Folded in tortuous windings.
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A highly convoluted brain. --North Amer.
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[1913 Webster]coiled \coiled\ (koild), adj.
curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals;
as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on
the deck. Opposite of uncoiled.
Note: [Narrower terms: {coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling,
volute, voluted, whorled}; {convolute rolled
longitudinally upon itself};curled, curled up;
{involute closely coiled so that the axis is
obscured)}; looped, whorled; twined, twisted;
convoluted; {involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves
in bud: having margins rolled inward)}; wound]
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convoluted
(gcide) | Convoluted \Con"vo*lu`ted\, a.
1. Having convolutions.
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beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn.
--Pennant.
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2. Folded in tortuous windings.
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A highly convoluted brain. --North Amer.
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[1913 Webster]coiled \coiled\ (koild), adj.
curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals;
as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on
the deck. Opposite of uncoiled.
Note: [Narrower terms: {coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling,
volute, voluted, whorled}; {convolute rolled
longitudinally upon itself};curled, curled up;
{involute closely coiled so that the axis is
obscured)}; looped, whorled; twined, twisted;
convoluted; {involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves
in bud: having margins rolled inward)}; wound]
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Involuted
(gcide) | Involute \In"vo*lute\, Involuted \In"vo*lu`ted\, a. [L.
involutus, p. p. of involvere. See Involve.]
1. (Bot.) Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in
vernation, or of the petals of flowers in [ae]stivation.
--Gray.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of
the Cyprea.
(b) Rolled inward spirally.
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Obvoluted
(gcide) | Obvolute \Ob"vo*lute\, Obvoluted \Ob`vo*lu"ted\, a. [L.
obvolutus, p. p. of obvolvere to wrap round; ob (see Ob-) +
volvere to roll.]
Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in
botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge
overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to
a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.
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convoluted
(wn) | convoluted
adj 1: rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal"
[syn: convolute, convoluted]
2: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the
Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on
to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language";
"convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a
knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering";
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott;
"tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting
for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved,
knotty, tangled, tortuous] |
voluted
(wn) | voluted
adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical,
spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled,
turbinate] |
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