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

White-woolly throughout, low; stem very leafy; leaves all pinnately parted into rigid narrowly linear and elongated, sometimes again pinnatifid divisions, with revolute margins; flowers cream-color.

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Corolla various in shape; the limb 4–5-cleft, revolute.

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Berry white, globular, rather dry, 4-celled, many-seeded.—A trailing and creeping evergreen, with very slender and scarcely woody stems, and small Thyme-like, ovate and pointed leaves on short petioles, with revolute margins, smooth above, the lower surface and the branches beset with rigid rusty bristles.

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Corolla ovate and urn-shaped, with a short revolute 5-toothed limb.

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A. polifòlia, L. Glabrous, 6–18´ high; leaves linear to lanceolate-oblong, strongly revolute, white beneath; flowers in terminal umbels; pedicels from axils of persistent scaly bracts; each anther-cell with a slender terminal ascending awn.—Wet bogs, N. J. and Penn. to Minn., and northward.

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