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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