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Convolute :: Convolute (a.) Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation..

Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation..

Coussinet :: Coussinet (n.) That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute..

Voluted :: Voluted (a.) Having a volute, or spiral scroll..

Gyrencephala :: Gyrencephala (n. pl.) The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted..

Revolute :: Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

Ionic :: Ionic (a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital..

Obvoluted :: Obvoluted (a.) Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap..

Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Having convolutions.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring..

Evolution :: Evolution (n.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute.

Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..

Devolute :: Devolute (v. t.) To devolve.

Cauliculus :: Cauliculus (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian..

Obvolute :: Obvolute (a.) Alt. of Obvolute.

Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..

Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea..

Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Folded in tortuous windings.

Evolvent :: Evolvent (n.) The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute..

Gyrus :: Gyrus (n.) A convoluted ridge between grooves; a convolution; as, the gyri of the brain; the gyri of brain coral. See Brain..

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