flexuous

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Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in a moment that two currents met and caused a turmoil at this place She descended as hastily as her trembling limbs would allow.

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  1. adjective Bending or winding alternately from side to side; sinuous.

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  • The combination of the indifferent sentiment, the lingering melody and the flexuous backdrop is both unsettling and instantly memorable. —  UCLA Stories
  • "Its back was dark green and it stood in the water in flexuous hillocks and went through it with infectious noise," says one account of her sighting. —  The Chronicle Herald - Maintenance Feed
  • Spikes are from 1/2 to 2 inches; rachis is slender, flexuous, flattened, scaberulous, with a few long hairs scattered singly along the margins or without these hairs Illustration: Fig. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • This is an annual with erect simple stems, 6 to 24 inches long The leaf-sheath is glabrous or nearly so, with hairs at the mouth The leaf-blade is linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, glabrous or hairy, 3 to 10 inches long and 1/8 to 3/8 inch broad The inflorescence is a solitary cylindric raceme of involucels, 2 to 4 inches long, enclosed in the uppermost leaf-sheath; the rachis is flexuous, angular and smooth. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Nodes are glabrous The leaf-blade is linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, 1 to 4 inches long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch broad The inflorescence is usually enclosed in the leaf-sheath, 1 to 6 inches long; the rachis is flexuous, angular and glabrous. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
 

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  1. From Latin flexuōsus, from flexus, a bending, a turning, from past participle of flectere, to bend.

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  1. = French flexueux = Spanish Portuguese flexuoso = Italian flessuoso, from Latin flexuosus, from flexus, a bending, winding, from flectere, past participle flexus, bend: see flex.
 

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