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adjective

Involuted, Involute adj.

(Bot.) Rolled inward from the edges; said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation.

(Zool.)

(a)

Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.

(b)

Rolled inward spirally.

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Etymology of 'Involuted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Oldinport family, which showed me inexhaustible possibilities of meaning in their blood-red hands, their death's-heads and cross-bones, their leopards' paws and Maltese crosses. There were inscriptions on the panels of the singing-gallery, telling of benefactions to the poor of Shepperton, with an involuted elegance of capitals and final flourishes which my alphabetic erudition traced with ever-new delight. No benches in those days; but huge roomy pews, round which devout churchgoers sat during "lessons," trying to look everywhere else than into each others' eyes. No low partitions ...

— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke

... of the penis, breaks in copulation; and we have seen its fragments at the place where it unites to the end of the lentil, l. towards the anterior extremity; but we have found no traces of the canal, k, formed of involuted membranes, which in the body of the male proceeds from the posterior end of the lentil, l. i. nor of the plaited pallet, p. adhering to this canal, called by Swammerdam the penis from its resemblance to that of other animals, though he is not of opinion that this point, ...

— New observations on the natural history of bees • Francis Huber

... decurrent Clitopilus. C. Stem eccentric or none, pileus lateral Claudopus. Gills decurrent, pileus umbilicate Eccilia. Gills not decurrent, pileus torn into scales, and slightly convex, margin at first involute Leptonia. Pileus bell-shaped, margin ...

— The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise - Its Habitat and its Time of Growth • M. E. Hard