settings
The Pillars of the Earth vocabulary
219 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.
help & settings
[x]
-
convolute
-
notes:
[botony]
► definition
Definition:In a lteral sense in botany it refers to a single leaf is wrapped tightly around itself in in spiral pattern. but it literature can refer to anything that is spiraled or wrapped. Often in a modern context it means confused or jumbled.
photo: by JonRichfield, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
► uses
Uses:
The senses were oppressed by mingled and conflicting perfumes, reeking up from strange convolute censers, together with multitudinous flaring and flickering tongues of emerald and violet fire.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2.
---
At the heart of it, magnified by the curved surface, there was a strange, pink, convoluted object that recalled a rose or a sea anemone.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
---
Oh, why is not man immortal? he thought. What is the good of the brain centres and convolutions, what is the good of sight, speech, self-consciousness, genius, if it is all destined to depart into the soil, and in the end to grow cold together with the earth's crust, and then for millions of years to fly with the earth round the sun with no meaning and no object?
Anton Chekhov. The Horse Stealers and other stories.
help with search