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Word entry · 8 letters

involute

Best crossword clue

"Tightly coiled"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPart of speech adjectiveSorted eilnotuvStarts with IEnds with E1 clues
1I2N3V4O5L6U7T8E

Definitions

  1. (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin involutus.

Used in a sentence

  • These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.
  • Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]

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