tortuose

English

Etymology

See tortuous.

Adjective

tortuose (comparative more tortuose, superlative most tortuose)

  1. 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

Interlingua

Adjective

tortuose (not comparable)

  1. tortuose, tortuous (twisted)

Italian

Adjective

tortuose

  1. feminine plural of tortuoso

Anagrams

Latin

Adjective

tortuōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of tortuōsus

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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