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. 5-8 cm. greyish brown, soon plane and umb. margin expanded, membranaceous, striate; g. truncato-free, grey; s. 5-6 cm. grey, whitish floccose, often flexuous; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
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 Massee, George
Parallel, flexuous or diverging fibers, extensible by increase in any or in all directions.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden
Low, decumbent, somewhat woody, diffusely branched, puberulent; branches slender, flexuous; leaves narrow; flowers few, small; capsules pubescent, about equalling the pedicel.
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 Gray, Asa
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