revolute

1. not comparableRolled or recurved on itself.
2. not comparablebiologyHaving the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.

present singular third person revolutes · participle present revoluting · participle past revoluted · past revoluted

1. to roll back, curve upwards

present singular third person revolutes · participle present revoluting · participle past revoluted · past revoluted

1. rareto participate in or incite a revolution or revolt

   2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted.

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   The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.

   1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28

   Christmas always thought himself a “patriotic American,” but, as he saw the matter, a little “revoluting” on behalf of his benefactors—Manuel Bonilla and Estrada Cabrera—in no sense harmed the interestes of the United States.

   1996, Lester D. Langley, The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930

   Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic]’.

   2000, Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain 1919-1945

   2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk “Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.