tortuose

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

• tortuose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Interlingua

Adjective

tortuose (not comparable)

1. tortuose, tortuous (twisted)

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Italian

Adjective

tortuose

1. feminine plural of tortuoso

Anagrams

• ottusero

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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