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Definition of Flexuous
1. Adjective. Having turns or windings. "The flexuous bed of the stream"
Definition of Flexuous
1. a. Having turns, windings, or flexures.
Definition of Flexuous
1. Adjective. winding from side to side; sinuous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flexuous
1. winding [adj]
Medical Definition of Flexuous
1. Bent from side to side in a zig-zag form. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flexuous
Literary usage of Flexuous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Scape very long, flexuous or spiral. Spathe tubular, bifid, 1-flowered.
Perianth elongated, 6-parted ; the alternate segments linear. Style none. ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... vespertilio. tant acute tubercles, white, yellowish, or reddish, painted with
angularly flexuous spots ; spire ..."
3. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1860)
"The simple modifications are thus named and defined: — 1. Cirrus, a parallel
flexuous, or diverging fibre, extensible in any or in all directions (Jig. ..."
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