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

Horn :: Horn (n.) The Ionic volute.

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..

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

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..

Contorted :: Contorted (a.) Arranged so as to overlap each other; as, petals in contorted or convolute aestivation..

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

Volute :: Volute (n.) A spiral turn, as in certain shells..

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

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

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

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

Involute :: Involute (a.) Alt. of Involute.

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

Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Rolled inward spirally.

Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..

Supination :: Supervolute (a.) Having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory..

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

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..

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..

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