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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Rolled backward from the tip or margins to the undersurface.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To revolve.
  • Rolled or curled backward or downward; rolled back, as the tips or margins of some leaves, fronds, etc.; in vernation and estivation, rolled backward from both the sides. See also cuts under Nothochlæna, Pteris, and Rafflesia.
  • noun The solid geometrical figure generated by the revolution of a plane figure about a straight line in its plane as axis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot. & Zoöl.) Rolled backward or downward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
  • adjective Rolled or recurved on itself.
  • adjective botany Having the edges rolled with the abaxial side outward.
  • verb to roll back, curve upwards

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin revolūtus, past participle of revolvere, to roll back; see revolve.]

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Back-formation from revolution.

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From Latin revolūtus, perfect passive participle of revolvō ("roll back").

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