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intervolution

intervolution noun: the state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution.

Noun

intervolution (countable and uncountable, plural intervolutions)

  1. (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution
    • the intervolutions of a snake
    • 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.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC

Forms of intervolution

pluralintervolutions

Origin of intervolution

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

Questions about intervolution

What does intervolution mean?
Intervolution means the state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution.
What part of speech is intervolution?
Intervolution is a noun.
What is the plural of intervolution?
The plural of intervolution is intervolutions.

Words near intervolution in the dictionary

  1. intervocal
  2. intervocalic
  3. intervocalically
  4. intervocalization
  5. intervolume
  6. intervolution
  7. intervolutions
  8. intervolve
  9. intervolved
  10. intervolves
  11. intervolving

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