An-frăc'tū-ous, a.

a. [Fr. anfractueux, from Lat. anfractus, a turning, a winding, from the unused anfringere, to wind, bend, from an, for amb, q. v., and frangere, to break, p. p. fractus, broken.] Winding; full of windings and turnings; as, the anfractuous spires of a horn.