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comparative more involute, superlative most involute
(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated. quotations examples
These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.
1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
(botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward. quotations examples
Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute […]
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page 7
(biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
(biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
(biology) Rolled inward spirally.
third-person singular simple present involutes, present participle involuting, simple past and past participle involuted
To roll or curl inwards. examples
plural involutes
(geometry) A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object. examples