involute

Adjective

formal of shells

(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated. / (botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.

Japanese Meaning

（正式な文脈で）理解しにくい、複雑な / （植物学）縁が外側に巻かれている（葉などが内側に折り返している）状態

Her lecture on quantum topology was so involute that only a handful of students followed it to the end.

彼女の量子位相の講義は非常に難解で、最後までついていけた学生はほんのわずかだった。

Sense（1）

(formal) Difficult to understand; complicated.

These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.

Sense（2）

(botany) Having the edges rolled with the adaxial side outward.

Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute[…]

Sense（3）

(biology, of shells) Having a complex pattern of coils in which younger whorls only partly surround older ones.

Sense（4）

(biology) Turned inward at the margin, like the exterior lip of the shells of species in genus Cypraea.

Sense（5）

(biology) Rolled inward spirally.

more involute

（ comparative ）

most involute

（ superlative ）