involute.

1. Rolled, curled, or folded inward.

2. Complicated, intricate, or elaborately entangled.

3. The path followed by the endpoint of a taut line as it unwinds from a given curve.

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Words that belong together

• an involute margin
• involute tissue

On the page

The involute margin concealed the paler surface beneath.

The observer described the tissue as involute rather than simply wrinkled.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more involute; superlative most involute where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.