Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost.

synonym: maze.

Roget 59a: complexity; complexness etc. adj.; complexus^†; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication^†; perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling, entanglement; coil etc. (convolution) 248; sleave^†, tangled skein, knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl^†; webwork^†.    [complexity if a task or action] difficulty etc. 704.    ... show more

Roget 248: winding etc. v.; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity^†; sinuosity, sinuation^†; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus^†, twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages^†; torsion; inosculation^†; reticulation etc. (crossing) 219; rivulation^†; roughness etc. 256.    coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop^†, scallop, escalop^†; kink; ammonite, snakestone^†.    serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.    knot.    ... show more

Roget 533: secret; dead secret, profound secret; arcanum^†, mystery; latency etc. 526; Asian mystery^†; sealed book, secrets of the prison house; le desous des cartes [Fr.].    enigma, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus, logogriph^†; monogram, anagram; Sphinx; crux criticorum [Lat.].    maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood; intricacy, meander.    problem etc. (question) 461; paradox etc. (difficulty) 704; unintelligibility etc. 519; terra incognita etc. (ignorance) 491.    ... show more

Dutch: doolhof, dwaaltuin, gangenstelsel, labyrint
Polish: labirynt

A complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium.

synonyms: inner ear, internal ear.

Dutch: binnenoor
Polish: ucho wewnętrzne