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
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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
A single, long, grasslike leaf precedes the flexuous stem, with its quaintly arched and delicately fringed blossoms.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Mucedines.—Here, on the other hand, the threads, if coloured at all, are still delicate, more flexuous, with much thinner walls, and never invested with an external cortical layer.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Changed "flexuous" to "flexuose" on page 4 of part 3: "thin, flexuose."
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
The epitrochlea is prominent; the epicondyle is surmounted by a well-marked crest, curved and flexuous in outline.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
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