• Complex circularity.
  • Convolution (Substantives), winding, wave, undulation, circuit, tortuosity, anfractuosity, sinuosity, involution, sinuation, circumvolution, meandering, circumbendibus, twist, twirl, curl, curlicue, crimp, frizz, frizzle, windings and turnings, ambages, inosculation, peristalsis.

    A coil, reel, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, scroll, cartouche, rundle, scollop (or scallop).

    Serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.

    (Verbs). To be convoluted, etc.

    To wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl, wave, undulate, meander, scallop, curl, crimp, frizz, frizzle, inosculate, entwine 219, enlace, twist together, goffer.

    (Adjectives). Convoluted, winding, twisting, contorted, waving, waved, wavy, curly, undulating, undated, serpentine, anguilline, mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, snaky, involved, sigmate, sigmoid, vermiform, vermicular, peristaltic, meandering; scolloped (or scalloped), wreathed, wreathy, crisped, crimped, frizzed, frizzy, frizzled, frizzly, ravelled, twisted, dishevelled.

    Spiral, coiled, helical, turbinate.

    (Adverb). In and out.

  • Rotundity (Substantives), cylindricity; cylinder, barrel, drum, cylindroid, roll, roller, rouleau, column, rolling- pin, rundle.
  • Cone, conoid; pear-shape, bell-shape.

    Sphericity, spheroidity, globosity; a sphere, globe, ball, spheroid, ellipsoid, drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pill, clue, marble, pea, knob, pommel.

    (Verbs). To form into a sphere, render spherical, to sphere, ensphere, to roll into a ball, round off, give rotundity, etc.

    (Adjectives). Rotund, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, columnar, lumbriciform; conic, conical, conoidal.

    Spherical, spheral, spheroidal, globular, globated, globous, globose, ovoid, egg-shaped, gibbous, bell- shaped, campaniliform, campaniform, campanulate, fungiform, bead - like, moniliform, pyriform, cigar- shaped.

    (Phrases). Round as an apple; round as a ball; teres atque rotundus.

3°. Superficial Form
  • Convexity (Substantives), prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bulge, protuberance, intumescence, tumour, tuberosity, tubercle, tooth, knob, excrescence, elbow, process, condyle, bulb, nub, nubble, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, hump, hunch, hunk, bunch, boss, embossment, bump, lump, clump, sugar-loaf, point 253, bow, bagginess.
  • Pimple, wen, wheal, papula, pustule, carbuncle, corn, wart, furuncle, fungus, fungosity, bleb, blister, blain.

    Papilla, nipple, teat, pap, udder, mamilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, belly, back, shoulder, elbow, lip, flange.

    Peg, button, stud, ridge, crimp, weal, rib, jetty, snag, eaves; mole, cupola, dome, balcony.


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