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
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 Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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 Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
Differs from P. gracile in flexuous and scurfy s. and not rose-edged gills. var. expolita, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 2-3 cm. fragile, thin, exp. viscid, shining, wax-yellow; g. adnate, subdecur. distant, broad, almost triangular, yellow; s. hollow, 3-4 cm. hollow, colour of p. often flexuous; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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