sinuate

American  

[sin-yoo-it, -ayt, sin-yoo-ayt] / ˈsɪn ju ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ˈsɪn juˌeɪt /

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  

/ ˈsɪnjʊɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

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

2. another word for sinuous

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Other Word Forms

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

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Etymology

Origin of sinuate

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

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Example Sentences

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sinuate sinuated

Frequently the lower edge is notched at, or near, the stem and in this case they are said to be emarginate or sinuate.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

Thallus dichotomous, proliferous, the early divisions linear-oblong, the margins ascending and remotely sinuate, the later divisions linear-palmatifid, coarsely nerved; cells large, hexagonal; involucre ciliate-fringed or lacerate; calyptra smooth, included.—Wet limestones and shales.

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

A. réptans, L. Perennial, about 1° high, with copious creeping stolons; leaves obovate or spatulate, sometimes sinuate, the cauline sessile, the floral approximate, subtending several sessile blue flowers.—Naturalized near Saco, Maine, Montreal, etc.

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

Gills typically free, often remote, not sinuate or decurrent.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor

P. campan.-convex, lubricous, smoky-ochre, edge revolute downy and whitish; g. sinuate, crowded, reddish, edge white, crenulate; s. slender, whitish, subbulbous, with reflexed circinate fibrils; sp. 11-12 long. nauseosum, Cke.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Fold upon fold—utterly, unspeakably arid—the flank of the main dune sinuated away towards the north-west.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

Outer lip prominent, sinuated above, smooth within; inner lip polished, white.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume I or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

Head greenish yellow, deeply punctured, a black band, sinuated in front between the eyes, on the back part of the head.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by John Lort Stokes

The leaves are short and small, dark-green, with white veins, much sinuated, deeply indented, and form a regular radius round the flower.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

Shell nodulous; inner lip smooth, whitish; outer lip inflected, above sinuated, within striated, blackish purple; basal lobe not toothed.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

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