flexile
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“Soft grow her limbs, and flexile seem her bones; “Her nails their hardness lose.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
And it is well known, that the canary birds, that are propagated in this country, and the finches, that are kept tame, will build their nests of any flexile materials, that are given them.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Radical leaves.—Very numerous; two or three feet long; about two lines broad; gracefully flexile; serrulate.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.
From The Husbands of Edith by George Barr McCutcheon
P. 4-7 mm. conical then exp. papillate, deeply striate when moist, brownish or greyish then pale; g. narrowed and adnate, greyish white; s. 6-14 cm. livid, flexile, rooting; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
