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convolute

[ kon-vuh-loot ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

, con·vo·lut·ed, con·vo·lut·ing.

rolled up together or with one part over another.
Botany. coiled up longitudinally so that one margin is within the coil and the other without, as the petals of cotton.

convolute

/ ˈkɒnvəˌluːt /

First recorded in 1690–1700; from Latin convolūtus “rolled up,” past participle of convolvere “to roll together, roll up”; convolve

C18: from Latin convolūtus rolled up, from convolvere to roll together, from volvere to turn

The best rom-coms from the early 2000s are the ones that recognize that no matter how convoluted the plot may be, the love story has to be relatable.

From Time

The two first have zigzag passages; the third, channels running in convolute curves.

The passages here run in convolute curves, the one winding in a spiral to the centre, the other receding from the centre.

They resemble the Ammonites in internal structure, but instead of being spirally convolute they are merely curved like a horn.

The more decidedly convolute species with hidden spires are the Atys, Montf.

A spiral shell is said to be discoidal, when the whorls are so horizontally convolute as to form a flattened spire.

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