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

Capsule large, distinctly pedicelled, dehiscing by 4–8 revolute segments.

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 Gray, Asa

Fruit fleshy or membranous, 1–5-celled, the placentæ often produced to the axis and revolute.

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 Gray, Asa

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.

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 Gray, Asa

Parts of flower 5–12; corolla rotate; anthers recurved or revolute.

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 Gray, Asa

Capsule pedicelled, oblong-pyriform, dehiscing by 5–8 revolute segments.

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 Gray, Asa