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Cauliculus :: Cauliculus (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian..

Parepididymis :: Parepididymis (n.) A small body containing convoluted tubules, situated near the epididymis in man and some other animals, and supposed to be a remnant of the anterior part of the Wolffian body..

Involute :: Involute (a.) Alt. of Involute.

Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..

Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Folded in tortuous windings.

Voluted :: Voluted (a.) Having a volute, or spiral scroll..

Devolute :: Devolute (v. t.) To devolve.

Ionic :: Ionic (a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital..

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of a plant, from which the volutes and helices spring..

Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea..

Convolute :: Convolute (a.) Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation..

Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Rolled inward from the edges; -- said of leaves in vernation, or of the petals of flowers in aestivation..

Obvolute :: Obvolute (a.) Alt. of Obvolute.

Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Rolled inward spirally.

Involved :: Involved (a.) Same as Involute.

Convoluted :: Convoluted (a.) Having convolutions.

Horn :: Horn (n.) The Ionic volute.

Gyrencephala :: Gyrencephala (n. pl.) The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted..

Evolute :: Evolute (n.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent..

Revolute :: Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

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