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Webster 1913 Edition


Revolute

Rev′o-lute

,
Adj.
[L.
revolutus
, p. p. of
revolvere
. See
Revolve
.]
(Bot. & Zool.)
Rolled backward or downward.
☞ A revolute leaf is coiled downwards, with the lower surface inside the coil. A leaf with revolute margins has the edges rolled under, as in the Andromeda polifilia.

Webster 1828 Edition


Revolute

REV'OLUTE

,
Adj.
[L. revolutus, from revolvo.]
In botany, rolled back or downwards; as revolute foliation or leafing, when the sides of the leaves in the bud are rolled spirally back or towards the lower surface; a revolute leaf or tendril; a revolute corol or valve.

Definition 2024


revolute

revolute

English

Adjective

revolute (not comparable)

  1. Rolled or recurved on itself.
  2. (botany) Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.
Translations

Verb

revolute (third-person singular simple present revolutes, present participle revoluting, simple past and past participle revoluted)

  1. to roll back, curve upwards

Etymology 2

Back-formation from revolution.

Verb

revolute (third-person singular simple present revolutes, present participle revoluting, simple past and past participle revoluted)

  1. to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
    • 1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28
      The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.
    • 1996, Lester D. Langley, The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930
      Christmas always thought himself a “patriotic American,” but, as he saw the matter, a little “revoluting” on behalf of his benefactors—Manuel Bonilla and Estrada Cabrera—in no sense harmed the interestes of the United States.
    • 2000, Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain 1919-1945
      Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic]’.
    • 2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known
      I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted.
    • 2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk
      “Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.

Anagrams


Italian

Adjective

revolute

  1. Feminine plural form of revoluto

Latin

Participle

revolūte

  1. vocative masculine singular of revolūtus