Usually means: Twist, coil, or complicate together.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. convolute: Merriam-Webster
  2. convolute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. convolute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. convolute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. convolute: Vocabulary.com
  6. convolute: Wordnik
  7. convolute: Wiktionary
  8. convolute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. convolute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. convolute: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. convolute: Dictionary.com
  12. Convolute (botany), Convolute (disambiguation), Convolute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Convolute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. convolute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. convolute: Rhymezone
  16. Convolute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. convolute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. convolute: FreeDictionary.org
  19. convolute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. convolute: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. convolute: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convolute: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convolute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. convolute: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. convolute: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  4. Convolute: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convolute: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See convoluted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (convolute)

verb:  (transitive) To make unnecessarily complex.
verb:  (transitive) To fold or coil into numerous overlapping layers.
verb:  (transitive) To confuse, mix up (something) with something else.
adjective:  Convoluted.
adjective:  (botany, of a leaf) Coiled such that one edge is inside, and one outside the coil, giving a spiral effect in cross section.

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