revolute

American  

[rev-uh-loot] / ˈrɛv əˌlut /

adjective

Biology.

1. rolled backward or downward; rolled backward at the tip or margin, as a leaf.

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revolute British  

/ ˈrɛvəˌluːt /

adjective

1. (esp of the margins of a leaf) rolled backwards and downwards

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Etymology

Origin of revolute

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin revolūtus, past participle of revolvere to revolve

Example Sentences

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revolute

P. infundib. then revolute, brown, glabrous, edge striate wavy; g. decur. straw-colour, joined by veins; s. glabrous, tinged straw-colour, base brownish; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

In the Pelliculosi the gills of the mushrooms are covered with a fleshy or membranaceous cuticle, hence the cap is not furrowed along the lines of the gills, but is torn and revolute.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor

Corolla.—Campanulate; three or four lines long; with five revolute lobes; having a small scale at base, opposite each lobe.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Perianth segments.—Six; two or three inches long; six to nine lines wide; strongly revolute; with orange base and reddish or scarlet tips; spotted or dotted with purple on the lower half.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Glabrate, 8–18´ high; leaves mostly horizontal, ovate, the upper acutish, remotely denticulate, abruptly contracted to winged petioles, not revolute; seeds often only slightly roughened, short and shortly appendaged.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray