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involuted

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1. involuted - Adjective

2. involuted - Verb

Meaning

Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation.

Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.

Rolled inward spirally.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Yet trees are not 'trees', until so named and seen and never were so named, till those had been who speech's involuted breath unfurled, faint echo and dim picture of the world. J. R. R. Tolkien

Diana got that seventh-sense intimation that she had touched on an unmentionable matter; although a strangely involuted one whereby the fact that it was unmentionable was itself unmentionable. Adam Roberts

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