involute

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Synonyms: involve, convolute, volute, invocate, inviolate, evolute, involucre, revolute, insolate, envolume, obvolute

Antonyms: involve, convolute, volute, invocate, inviolate, evolute, involucre, revolute, insolate, envolume, obvolute

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Adjective

1. {{lb|en|formal}} [[difficult|Difficult]] to [[understand]]; [[complicated]].
2. {{lb|en|botany}} Having the [[edge]]s rolled with the [[adaxial]] side outward.
3. {{lb|en|biology|of shells}} Having a [[complex]] pattern of [[coil]]s in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
4. {{lb|en|biology}} Turned [[inward]] at the [[margin]], like the [[exterior]] [[lip]] of the shells of species in genus {{taxfmt|Cypraea|genus}}.
5. {{lb|en|biology}} Rolled inward spirally.

Verb

1. To [[roll]] or [[curl]] [[inwards]].

Noun

1. {{lb|en|geometry}} A [[curve]] that cuts all [[tangent]]s of another curve at [[right angle]]s; [[traced]] by a point on a [[string]] that [[unwind]]s from a curved object.

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