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
Each of these emits from its summit a cylindrical tube, generally flexuous, but always more or less bent in a crozier shape, sometimes attenuated at the extremity.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Leaves.—Few; linear-lanceolate; the radical one or two much larger than those of the flexuous or erect stem.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Capillitium arising out of the thickened base, the threads hyaline or pinkish, ascending, flexuous, simple, or branched a time or two, the extremities attached on all sides to the wall of the sporangium.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride
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
