Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rolled or turned in.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective 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.

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  • adjective overlapping; contorted; convoluted
  • adjective botany Having two opposite leaves, each with one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other.
  • adjective botany Having a circle of several leaves or petals which overlap in that manner.

Etymologies

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Latin obvolutus, past participle of obvolvere to wrap around.

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