flexuous
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Auden wanted to steer the art away from truth-claims and toward something more flexuous and subtle—a mode, not a message.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2013
P. 2-3 cm. campan. obtuse, slightly striate, hygr., rugulose, atomate, pale ochre, whitish, or tinged rose when dry; g. adnate, broad; s. 4-5 cm. slightly flexuous, white, apex scurfy; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Parallel, flexuous or diverging fibers, extensible by increase in any or in all directions.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
Mucedines.—Here, on the other hand, the threads, if coloured at all, are still delicate, more flexuous, with much thinner walls, and never invested with an external cortical layer.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Crown of 5 free membranaceous leaflets, which are truncate or obscurely lobed at the apex, where they bear a pair of flexuous awns united at base.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
