English

Noun

intervolution ‎(plural intervolutions)

1. (rare) The state of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake
   • 1850. Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter

     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.

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• intervolve

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