adjective
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Also: sinuous. (of leaves) having a strongly waved margin
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another word for sinuous
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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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Gills sinuate, dark brown or blackish-purple; veil often hanging in fragments from edge of pileus.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Leaves, especially on young trees, often less deeply pinnatifid, sometimes barely sinuate.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
P. very thin, orbicular, sinuate, subsessile, base reticulately-fibrillose; g. simple, unequal; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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
In the first, fourth, and eighth class the leaf differs from the rest; the fourth is more sinuated; the eighth has a large broad leaf not at all sinuated.
From A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship by William Bligh
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
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
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
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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