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Convoluted   Listen
adjective
Convoluted  adj.  
1.
Having convolutions. "beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn."
2.
Folded in tortuous windings. "A highly convoluted brain."





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"Convoluted" Quotes from Famous Books



... of India, roams over the open and rocky plains of that immense country. It is distinguished from the rest of its family by the beauty and singular shape of its horns, which are annulated or ringed, and spirally convoluted or curved together, making two or more turns, according to the age of the animal. The fakirs and dervishes of India, who are enjoined by their religion from carrying swords, frequently wear at their girdles the polished horns of the siasin instead ...
— Chatterbox Stories of Natural History • Anonymous
... of the fumitory with their black and rosy blossoms, the tendrils of the grape, the twisted shoots of the honeysuckle; in short, all the innocent creatures have that is most tangled, wayward, wild,—flames and triple darts, leaves lanceolated or jagged, stalks convoluted like passionate desires writhing in the soul. From the bosom of this torrent of love rises the scarlet poppy, its tassels about to open, spreading its flaming flakes above the starry jessamine, dominating the rain of pollen—that soft mist fluttering in the air ...
— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac


Words linked to "Convoluted" :   coiled, complex, tortuous, botany, phytology, tangled, Byzantine, convolute


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