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involuted
CIDE DICTIONARY
involuted, a. [L. involutus, p. p. of involvere. See Involve.].
- Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in æstivation. Gray. [1913 Webster]
- Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
involuted
Byzantine, ambagious, anfractuous, balled up, circuitous, circumlocutory, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted, convolutional, crabbed, daedal, devious, elaborate, embrangled, entangled, flexuose, flexuous, fouled up, implicated, intricate, involute, involutional, involved, knotted, labyrinthian, labyrinthine, loused up, many-faceted, matted, mazy, meandering, meandrous, messed up, mixed up, mucked up, multifarious, perplexed, ramified, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, screwed up, serpentine, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, snarled, subtle, tangled, tangly, torsional, tortile, tortuous, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy
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