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Definition of Revolute
1. a. Rolled backward or downward.
Definition of Revolute
1. Adjective. Rolled or recurved on itself. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward. ¹
3. Verb. to roll back, curve upwards ¹
4. Verb. to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Revolute
1. rolled backward or downward [adj]
Medical Definition of Revolute
1. Rolled downwards or backwards. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revolute
Literary usage of Revolute
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"622), is a more eastern species, of Colorado and New Mexico, with the habit of F.
grandifolia, but more pubescent, leaves narrower and with revolute margins ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... but more pubescent, leaves narrower and with revolute margins, flowers larger,
and ovary 3-ovuled. ORDER XIV. ..."
3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Leaves similar, pinnately veined, but the margins revolute, seemingly entire,
and Flowers blue, the clusters in a simple raceme mostly УЛ to 1 in. long; ..."
4. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... Violet ; and the revolute has both margins rolled outward and backward, as in
the Dock, Willow, Rosemary. 284 385 e- 28'j 387 283, of Birch leaf ; 2W, ..."
5. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman (1897)
"J. armillaris, L. Branches puberulent; leaves wedge-obovate, the margins revolute;
racemes chiefly terminal, many-flowered, rather longer than the leaves ..."
6. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Capsule cylindric, a little curved, nearly three times as long as the calyx ;
teeth erect, acuminate, the margins revolute. ..."
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