convoluted

convoluted
    adj 1: rolled longitudinally upon itself; "a convolute petal"
           [syn: {convolute}, {convoluted}]
    2: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the
       Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on
       to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language";
       "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a
       knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering";
       "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott;
       "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting
       for months" [syn: {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {involved},
       {knotty}, {tangled}, {tortuous}]
    

Convoluted \Con"vo*lu`ted\, a.
   1. Having convolutions.
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            beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn.
                                                  --Pennant.
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   2. Folded in tortuous windings.
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            A highly convoluted brain.            --North Amer.
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coiled \coiled\ (koild), adj.
   curled or wound especially in concentric rings or spirals;
   as, a coiled snake ready to strike; the rope lay coiled on
   the deck. Opposite of {uncoiled}.

   Note: [Narrower terms: {coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling,
         volute, voluted, whorled}; {convolute rolled
         longitudinally upon itself};{curled, curled up};
         {involute closely coiled so that the axis is
         obscured)}; {looped, whorled}; {twined, twisted};
         {convoluted}; {involute, rolled esp of petals or leaves
         in bud: having margins rolled inward)}; {wound}]
         [WordNet 1.5]