flexuous
Americanadjective
adjective
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full of bends or curves; winding
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variable; unsteady
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of flexuous
First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin flexuōsus “full of turns, winding, crooked,” equivalent to flexu(s) ( see flex 1) + -ōsus -ous
Example Sentences
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Auden wanted to steer the art away from truth-claims and toward something more flexuous and subtle—a mode, not a message.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2013
P. 4-5 cm. plano-depr. edge spreading, pallid, shining white when dry; g. subdecur. narrow, closely crowded; s. 4-5 cm. white, naked, flexuous; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Stems.—Somewhat flexuous, with spreading branches; two inches to a foot or more high.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Base of the stalk containing the bud open along one side; sterile segment membranaceous; the cells of the epidermis flexuous.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Afterwards the spore emits, from any point whatever of its surface, a thin, straight or flexuous tube, which attains a length of from two to ten times the diameter of the spore.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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