Adjective
Difficult to understand; complicated.
Usage- Formal
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These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.
Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.
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Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]
Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.
Usage- of shells
Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.
Rolled inward spirally.
Verb
To roll or curl inwards.
Noun
A curve that cuts all tangents of another curve at right angles; traced by a point on a string that unwinds from a curved object.
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Adjective
especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward
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(of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured