intervolution

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noun

The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution

“the intervolutions of a snake”

OriginLatin inter →
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Meanings

nounintervolution (countable and uncountable, plural intervolutions)

plural intervolutions

  1. countablerareuncountableThe state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution

    the intervolutions of a snake

    1 more example

    A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.

    1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latininter“between”
  2. Englishintervolution

From Latin inter (“between”), from volvere (“to roll”).

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Chicago

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