Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a labyrinth.
  • Specifically, in zoology, same as labyrinthodont.

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

  • adjective Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.

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  • adjective labyrinthine

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Examples

  • It's also essential for small business who, very often, doesn't have the legal capacity, the money to spend with consultants to go through this labyrinthic procedures.

    Transcript: Pascal Lamy 2010

  • It's also essential for small business who, very often, doesn't have the legal capacity, the money to spend with consultants to go through this labyrinthic procedures.

    Transcript: Pascal Lamy 2010

  • It's also essential for small business who, very often, doesn't have the legal capacity, the money to spend with consultants to go through this labyrinthic procedures.

    Get Briefed: Pascal Lamy 2010

  • It's also essential for small business who, very often, doesn't have the legal capacity, the money to spend with consultants to go through this labyrinthic procedures.

    Get Briefed: Pascal Lamy 2010

  • All our contact person in Umeå must do is to follow a labyrinthic path through downtown

    Back from Umeå Torill 2008

  • At the moment, "string theory" is no theory at all, but rather a labyrinthic structure of mathematical procedures and intuitions which get their justification from the fact that they, at least formally, reproduce general relativity and the standard model of elementary particle physics as low energy approximations.

    "String theory" is no theory at all Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • His very language is Titanian; deep, strong, tumultuous; shining with a thousand hues, fused from a thousand elements, and winding in labyrinthic masses. '

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • After reaching the bay they had left the day before they turned to the east and north as they followed labyrinthic channels that led around big and little keys in that part of the ten times Ten Thousand

    Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

  • Eight Towers: a labyrinthic mass, high-frowning there, of all ages, from twenty years to four hundred and twenty; beleaguered, in this its last hour, as we said, by mere chaos come again!

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

  • And so this wonderful wonder of wonders was glad when he emerged from the labyrinthic, brain-confusing bewilderment of Chinese interior life of this town into somewhat clearer regions.

    Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

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