คำว่า ' tortuous ' ( ADJ )
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คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[a.] Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
[a.] Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
[a.] Injurious: tortious.
[a.] Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.