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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
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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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