Anfractuous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anfractuous \An*frac"tu*ous\, a. [L. anfractuosus, fr. anfractus
     a turning, a winding, fr. the unused anfringere to wind,
     bend; an-, for amb- + fractus, p. p. of frangere to break:
     cf. F. anfractueux.]
     Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous;
     as, the anfractuous spires of a horn. --


     {An*frac"tu*ous*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  anfractuous
       adj : full of twists and turns; "anfractuous cliffs"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "anfractuous":
     ambagious, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate,
     convoluted, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose,
     flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional,
     labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose,
     roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate,
     sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile,
     tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty,
     verticillate, volute, voluted, whorled, winding, wreathlike,
     wreathy