INTERWOVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interwoven mean? 

• INTERWOVEN (adjective)
  The adjective INTERWOVEN has 1 sense:

1. linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing

  Familiarity information: INTERWOVEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERWOVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing

Synonyms:

interlacing; interlinking; interlocking; interwoven

Similar:

complex (complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts)

 Context examples 

They are two of Neptune's seven inner moons, part of a closely packed system that is interwoven with faint rings.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

There was none: all was interwoven stem, columnar trunk, dense summer foliage—no opening anywhere.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is the truth of the sneer, stamped out from the black iron of the Cosmos and interwoven with mighty rhythms of sound into a fabric of splendor and beauty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The mass of interwoven filamentous hyphae that forms especially the vegetative portion of the thallus of a fungus.

(Mycelium, Food and Drug Administration)

A dense intricate feltwork of interwoven fine glial processes, fibrils, synaptic terminals, axons, and dendrites interspersed among the nerve cells in the gray matter of the central nervous system.

(Neuropil, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Here it was impossible for me to advance a step; for the stalks were so interwoven, that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen ears so strong and pointed, that they pierced through my clothes into my flesh.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Their outward garments were adorned with the figures of suns, moons, and stars; interwoven with those of fiddles, flutes, harps, trumpets, guitars, harpsichords, and many other instruments of music, unknown to us in Europe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)