Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, turned round like a crook; bent to and fro; folded and waved or marked with wavy lines: applied to the peculiar and complicated flexuosities of the margin of the apothecium in the genus Umbilicaria.

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

  • adjective (Bot.) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.

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  • adjective botany Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.

Etymologies

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See gyre.

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