The spreading branches have a tendency to assume a tortuous form, owing to the central shoots becoming abortive, and the growth thus being continued laterally, causing a zigzag development, more exaggerated in old trees and those standing in From Kotschy, op. cit.
tortuous הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד