| ADJECTIVE | all | coiled | curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals) |
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| Sounds | koy'ld | |
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| Rhymes | boiled ... unspoiled: 11 rhymes with oyld... | |
| Meaning | curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals). | |
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| Narrower | coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate | In the shape of a coil |
| convolute, convoluted | Rolled longitudinally upon itself | |
| involute | (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured | |
| involute, rolled | especially of petals or leaves in bud | |
| wound | put in a coil | |
| See also | crooked | Having or marked by bends or angles |
| rounded | curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged | |
| Opposite | uncoiled, straight | no longer coiled |
| Spanish | bobinado, enrollado, enroscado | |
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