Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, irregularly bending or turning in different directions.

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

  • adjective Wreathed; twisted; winding.

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  • adjective wreathed; twisted; winding

Etymologies

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See tortuous.

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