elaborate vs obvolute

elaborate

adj
  • Complex, detailed, or sophisticated. 

  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy. 

verb
  • to develop in detail or complexity 

  • (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail 

obvolute

adj
  • overlapping; contorted; convoluted 

  • Having two opposite leaves, each with one edge overlapping the nearest edge of the other. 

  • Having a circle of several leaves or petals which overlap in that manner. 

How often have the words elaborate and obvolute occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )