Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
full of twists and turns;
- Example: "anfractuous cliffs"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Anfractuous \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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
anfractuous
adj 1: full of twists and turns; "anfractuous cliffs"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "anfractuous":
ambagious, circuitous, circumlocutory, cochlear, cochleate,
convoluted, convolutional, corkscrew, corkscrewy, flexuose,
flexuous, helical, helicoid, involute, involuted, involutional,
labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, rivose, rivulose,
roundabout, ruffled, screw-shaped, scrolled, serpentine, sinuate,
sinuose, sinuous, snaky, spiral, spiroid, torsional, tortile,
tortuous, turbinal, turbinate, turning, twisting, twisty,
verticillate, volute, voluted, whorled, winding, wreathlike,
wreathy