Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, twisted and plaited or folded.
- In zoology, crinkled, as the hair of a negro.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Plaited lengthwise and also twisted.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory.
Etymologies
- Latin contortuplicatus; contortus contorted + plicare to fold. (Wiktionary)
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