intervolution

The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution

Noun

  1. The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution
    • the intervolutions of a snake
    • A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight. - 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet...

Origin

From Latin inter (“between”), from volvere (“to roll”).

Forms

intervolutions

Related

intervolve in Springfield Mass.: G. & C. Merriam 1913 →OCLC