Convoluted (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months".
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Meaning 2
Rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal".
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All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The botanical specimen on display showed a rare convoluted leaf structure, intricately folded and overlapping in a beautiful pattern.
- As I looked at the petals of the exotic flower, I was struck by the way they formed a convoluted spiral shape.
- In cross-section, the roots of the old tree had formed a convoluted tangle that resisted attempts to map its complex underground structure.
- Despite their elegant appearance, the ferns in the greenhouse were, upon closer inspection, highly convoluted in their morphology, a feature of great scientific interest.
- Her origami rose required precisely twisted, convoluted petals to hold their intricate design in three dimensions.