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.

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

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

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

Thallus 3–6´´ wide, mostly simple, the margins sinuate or undulate.

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

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 Massee, George