anfracture

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin ānfrāctus (“bend; circuitous route”).

Noun edit

anfracture (plural anfractures)

(obsolete) A mazy winding.

Related terms edit

anfractuous

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “anfracture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)