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Involute

adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Difficult to understand; complicated. formal

    "These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life."

  2. 2
    Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.

    "Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]"

  3. 3
    Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
  4. 4
    Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
  5. 5
    Rolled inward spirally.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured wordnet
  2. 2
    especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.
Verb
  1. 1
    To roll or curl inwards.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

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