tortuose
English
Etymology
See tortuous.
Adjective
tortuose (comparative more tortuose, superlative most tortuose)
- wreathed; twisted; winding
- 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
- Crust tartareous or leprose uneven pulverulent, Apothecia roundish dissimilar waved plaited tortuose and variously expanded in the disk
References
- “tortuose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
References
- “tortuose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tortuose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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