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Definition of Contortive
1. a. Expressing contortion.
Definition of Contortive
1. Adjective. Showing contortion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contortive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contortive
Literary usage of Contortive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... and the ¡estivation is contortive. Plate IV. Anacardium occidentale, Cashew-nut
plant, belonging to the Nat Ord. ..."
2. Considerations on the Causes Objects and Consequences of the Present War by William Roscoe (1808)
"... destructive malignity and " contortive progress he imitates, the power of
fasci- " nation," Sac. Dangers of the Country, p. ..."
3. Outdoor Heritage by Harold Child Bryant (1919)
"When captured this salamander twists and turns, giving peculiar contortive
movements perhaps useful in escaping its enemies. Slender salamanders keep well ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1838)
"... they may occasion, those sappers gradually undermine the roots, perforate the
soil, and make it a complete gallery by their contortive evolutions. ..."
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