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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Twisted or strained out of shape.
  • adjective Botany Twisted, bent, or partially rolled upon itself; convolute.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Twisted; drawn awry; distorted; twisted on itself: in botany, usually the same as convolute, with reference to estivation.

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

  • adjective Twisted, or twisted together.
  • adjective Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.
  • adjective Arranged so as to overlap each other.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of contort.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective twisted (especially as in pain or struggle)

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