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Involute   Listen
noun
Involute  n.  (Geom.) A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve, or unwound from it; called also evolvent. See Evolute.


adjective
Involuted, Involute  adj.  
1.
(Bot.) Rolled inward from the edges; said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.
(b)
Rolled inward spirally.





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... glaucous, narrow, lanceolate, thinly coriaceous, acuminate with a hardened tip, 1 to 7 or 9 inches long, 1/2 to 1/4 inch broad, flat or involute when slightly faded, with a few distantly scattered hairs above, especially towards the lower portion of the blade when young, and becoming glabrous later, glabrous on the lower surface, margin is finely serrate and with a few cilia towards the base, some hairs being tubercle-based; base of the ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar


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