Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Obvolute

Obvolute , adjective

[Latin obvolutus, past participle of obvolvere to wrap round; ob (see Ob-) + volvere to roll.]

Overlapping; contorted; convolute; -- applied primarily, in botany, to two opposite leaves, each of which has one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other, and secondarily to a circle of several leaves or petals which thus overlap.

Also: Obvoluted