flexile

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The purple clematis, twisting its flexile branches with those of the pale woodbine, formed a sweet and fragrant canopy to the arched bower, while the flowery tendrils hung down on all sides.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

P. 1-2 cm. campan.-convex, exp. obtuse, hygr. even when dry, glabrous, cinnamon then pale; g. adnate, crowded; s. 3-5 cm. rigid, flexile, glabrous; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

But chief at sea, whose every flexile wave Obeys the blast, the aerial tumult swells.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, striate, glabrous, hygr. even, opaque and rather silky when dry; stem slender, lax, flexile; gills broadly and abruptly adnate, broad, somewhat denticulate. vittaeformis, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The flexile willow, and the waving reed; The fenny bulrush, osier, and the cane Diminutive, the stagnant depth conceal'd.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.