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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Twisted, or twisted together.

“A contorted chain of icicles.”

Massinger.

(Bot.)

(a)

Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.

(b)

Arranged so as to overlap each other;

as, petals in

contorted

or convolute æstivation

pp.

Twisted together. A contorted corol, in botany, has the edge of one petal lying over the next, in an oblique direction.