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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



... truly goin' t' depress this elongated spheroid an' its human consignment int' that conglomerous convoluted mass of gaseous vapor regardless of th' consequences?" asked Washington, as he gazed with wide opened eyes at the sight ...
— Five Thousand Miles Underground • Roy Rockwood
... graduated mesh, E, and which admit the air to the burner below. The products of combustion of the flame rise through the inner chimney, passing around the tubes, and thereby giving up some of their heat to the incoming air. Farther up, the chimney is partly filled with the convoluted gas-pipe, A, which also takes up some of the waste heat, and delivers the gas to the burner at a correspondingly high temperature. A very simple method of lighting this burner, which in itself does not present anything remarkable, is arranged at the lower part ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various
... enveloped in a fibrous capsule, known as the tunica albuginea, from which fibrous septa pass into the interior of the organ, thus dividing it into a number of separate lobules. Each lobule is composed of seminiferous tubules, which are greatly convoluted and likewise branched, the branches being continuous with those of neighbouring tubules, both within the same lobule, and (by perforating the fibrous septa) in adjoining lobules. In the walls of the seminiferous tubules the spermatozoa are formed. The seminiferous tubules ...
— The Sexual Life of the Child • Albert Moll


Words linked to "Convoluted" :   involved, Byzantine, complex, botany, phytology, coiled, convolute, knotty


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