Anfractuosity

Synonyms for "anfractuosity" (12 found)

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Dutch

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  • breuklijn noun (a winding channel or crevice)
  • hersenkronkel noun (one of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain)
  • kronkel noun (a winding channel or crevice)

Esperanto

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  • anfrakto noun (a winding channel or crevice)
  • anfrakto noun (one of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain)

French

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  • anfractuosité noun (a winding channel or crevice)

Portuguese

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  • anfractuosidade noun (a winding channel or crevice)
  • anfractuosidade noun (one of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain)
  • anfratuosidade noun (a winding channel or crevice)
  • anfratuosidade noun (one of the fissures (sulci) separating the convolutions of the brain)

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Here endeth the doctrine of the right-angled sphericalls, the whole diatyposis wherof is in the Equisolea or hippocrepidian diagram, whose most intricate amfractuosities, renvoys, various mixture of analogies, and perturbat situation of proportionall termes, cannot choose but be pervious to the understanding of any judicious reader that hath perused this comment aright.

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Amfractuosity.

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They do not always elevate their polyparies from the depths of the waters to their surface, some extend themselves horizontally upon the bottom of the sea, following its curvatures, declivities, and anfractuosities, and cover the soil of old ocean with an enamelled carpet of various and brilliant colours, sometimes of a single colour as dazzling as the purple of the ancients.

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At this moment, the Sun, sympathizing with these thoughts of love, or of the future, has cast on the tawny sides of this rock, an ardent light; some mountain flowers called attention, the calm and the silence enlarged this anfractuosity, sombre in reality, colored by the dreamer; then it was beautiful with its scant vegetation, its warm chamomillas, its hair of Venus with the velvet leaves; a festival prolonged, magnificent decorations, happy exaltation of human forces!'

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