convoluted
 (a.)旋繞的;迴旋狀的


 con·vo·lut·ed /-ˌlutəd/ 形容詞
 (拉convolutus)捲曲的,席捲的(指個葉卷迭式),旋轉的(指多葉或花捲迭式)


 Con·vo·lu·ted a.
 1. Having convolutions.
    beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn.   --Pennant.
 2. Folded in tortuous windings.
    A highly convoluted brain.   --North Amer. Rev.

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 convoluted
      adj 1: rolled or coiled together; "a convoluted shell"
      2: highly involved or intricate; "the Byzantine tax structure";
         "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning";
         "intricate needlework"; "an intricate labyrinth of refined
         phraseology"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty
         problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh,
         what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous
         legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for
         months" [syn: Byzantine, intricate, involved, knotty,
          labyrinthine, tangled, tortuous]