intervolution

English

Etymology

From Latin inter (“between”), from volvere (“to roll”).

Noun

intervolution (countable and uncountable, plural intervolutions)

1. (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution

   the intervolutions of a snake

   • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, OCLC 223202227:

     A writhing horror twisted itself across his features, like a snake gliding swiftly over them, and making one little pause, with all its wreathed intervolutions in open sight.

Related terms

• intervolve

• “intervolution” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.