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contorted, ppl. a.|kənˈtɔːtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Twisted, esp. twisted together or round itself; drawn awry or out of shape by a twisting action.
1622Massinger Virg. Mart. v. i, I'll..hang thee In a contorted chain of icicles, In the frigid zone. 1674J. Wright tr. Seneca's Thyestes 10 What makes Thee menace thus with thy contorted Snakes? 1774Pennant Tour Scot. in 1772, 165 The rocks are contorted. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxv. 368 The legumes are contorted. 1878Black Green Past. v. 37 All over his contorted visage.
fig.1652Gaule Magastrom. 70 Whether those derivations..be not contorted, jejune..ridiculous.
2. Bot. ‘An arrangement of petals or corolline lobes, when each piece, being oblique in figure, and overlapping its neighbour by one margin, has its other margin in like manner overlapped by that which stands next it’ (Treas. Bot. 1866).
1760Ellis in Phil. Trans. LI. 934 Contorted flowers, that is..those monopetalous flowers, whose lobes, or sections of the limb of their petals, turn all to the right hand. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora p. xv, Convolvulaceæ..corolla..plaited and contorted in bud.
b. contorted-convolutive adj.: convolute with some degree of contortion.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 218 The æstivation..on account of the lateral and somewhat contorted twisting of the nearly equal segments, contorted-convolutive. |