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Definition of Sinuate
1. Adjective. Curved or curving in and out. "Wiggly lines"
2. Adjective. Having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex.
Definition of Sinuate
1. a. Having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.
2. v. i. To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinuous.
Definition of Sinuate
1. Verb. To advance in wavy or curvy manner, to bend, to curve, to wind in and out ¹
2. Adjective. sinuous ¹
3. Adjective. Having wavy indentation on its border or edge. ¹
4. Adjective. (mycology of gills) Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower and then curving back towards the stem before reaching the attachment point. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sinuate
1. to curve in and out [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Medical Definition of Sinuate
1. With deep, wave-like depressions along the margin. Compare: undulate. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinuate
Literary usage of Sinuate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Fruit Insects by Mark Vernon Slingerland, Cyrus Richard Crosby (1914)
"THE sinuate PEAR BOREK Agrilus sinuatus Olivier When this European enemy of the
pear was first discovered in New Jersey, in 1894,it was ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Lvs. 4-8 ft. long, 12- 18 in. wide, with lanceolate pinna- and sinuate pinnules;
veins uniting freely. Japan and Formosa. BB. Veins free between the sori ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1897)
"... the apices of the elytra being narrowly and obliquely truncate, the truncation
sinuate, the angles, especially the exterior, very acute and prominent. ..."
4. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"... inner appendiculate or gibbous below the tip, fruit as in VAR. 2, but paler.
Sandy places.—VAR. 4, palus'tre, DC. (sp.) ; leaves sinuate-toothed or pin- ..."
5. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Bomb. Fl. 99. Annual ; stem not elongate, more or less scabrous and punctate,
scarcely at all hairy. Leaves 1-1J in. diani., lobes often sinuate and lobed; ..."
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