anfractuous
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Anfractuous \An*frac"tu*ous\, a. [L. anfractuosus, fr. anfractus
a turning, a winding, fr. the unused anfringere to wind,
bend; an-, for amb- + fractus, p. p. of frangere to break:
cf. F. anfractueux.]
Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous;
as, the anfractuous spires of a horn. --
{An*frac"tu*ous*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "anfractuous":
ambagious, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate,
convoluted, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose,
flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional,
labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose,
roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate,
sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile,
tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty,
verticillate, volute, voluted, whorled, winding, wreathlike,
wreathy
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