sinuate

American  

[sin-yoo-it, -eyt, sin-yoo-eyt] / ˈsɪn yu ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈsɪn yuˌeɪt /

adjective

1. bent in and out; winding; sinuous.

2. Botany. having the margin strongly or distinctly wavy, as a leaf.

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verb (used without object)

sinuated, sinuating

1. to curve or wind in and out; creep in a winding path.

   a snake sinuating along the ground.

sinuate British  

/ -ˌeɪt, ˈsɪnjʊɪt /

adjective

1. Also: sinuous.  (of leaves) having a strongly waved margin

2. another word for sinuous

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Other Word Forms

• sinuately adverb
• unsinuate adjective
• unsinuated adjective
• unsinuately adverb

Etymology

Origin of sinuate

First recorded in 1680–90; from Latin sinuātus, past participle of sinuāre “to bend, curve”; sinus, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Biennial; leaves decurrent, sinuate, spiny; heads solitary, drooping; flowers purple.—Fields near Harrisburg, Pa., Prof. Porter.

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Leaves.—Oblanceolate or lanceolate; sinuately toothed or irregularly pinnatifid; two to four inches long.

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Gills sinuate behind; edge of pileus incurved when young; stem fibrous or fleshy.

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Gills adnate or sinuate; spores brownish purple, sometimes intense purple, almost black.—M.

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Flowers in small heads, in the axils or in terminal spikes; leaves sinuately toothed or nearly entire Strawberry Blite, Chenopodium capitatum. 9b.

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