Involute
English Meaning
Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in æstivation.
- Intricate; complex.
- Botany Having the margins rolled inward.
- Botany Having whorls that obscure the axis or other volutions, as the shell of a cowrie.
- To curl inward.
- To return to a normal or former condition.
- The curve traced by a point on a taut, inextensible string as it unwinds from another curve.