intervolution

English

Etymology

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

Noun

intervolution (countable and uncountable, plural intervolutions)

  1. (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution
    the intervolutions of a snake
    • 1850. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter
      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.
  • intervolution in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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