ANFRACTUOUS

ANFRAC'TUOUS, adjective [Latin anfractus, of amb, about, and fractus, broken. See Break.]Winding; full of windings and turnings; written less correctly, anfractuose.

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An‐frac″tu‐ous (�), a. [[L. anfractuosus, fr. anfractus a turning, a winding, fr. the unused anfringere to wind, bend; an-, for amb- + fractus, p. p. of frangere to break: cf. F. anfractueux.]] Winding; full of windings and turnings; sinuous; tortuous; as, the anfractuous spires of a horn. — An‐frac″tu‐ous‐ness, n.