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

Stout and dark green, with large linear-lanceolate pubescent leaves, the stem usually flexuous, and with several short lateral branches or sessile axillary heads.

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 Gray, Asa

Differs from P. gracile in flexuous and scurfy s. and not rose-edged gills. var. expolita, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. convex, equal, yellow, shining, disc depr. brownish, cracked; g. adnate, violet then dingy flesh-colour; s. solid, rather bulbous, flexuous, with yellowish scales, apex naked, tinged violet.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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 Butler, Thomas Belden