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
Creeping, flexuous; leaves round-elliptic, entire, ascending; underleaves broadly subulate, not apparent on old stems; involucral leaves large, elongated, the inner smaller and more or less laciniate; perianth oval-obovate, ascending.—On the ground and rotten logs; common.
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
P. 1.5-2 cm. hemispher. striate, hygr. smoky, opaque and silky-atomate when dry; g. adnate, grey then dusky-violet, edge often rosy; s. 2-3 cm. equal, flexuous, whitish; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. rigid; s. slender, slightly flexuous; g. nearly free, fuscous-umber.
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
