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

Interlingua

Adjective

tortuose (not comparable)

  1. tortuose, tortuous (twisted)

Italian

Adjective

tortuose

  1. feminine plural of tortuoso

Anagrams

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
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