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. rigid; s. slender, slightly flexuous; g. nearly free, fuscous-umber.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Changed "flexuous" to "flexuose" on page 4 of part 3: "thin, flexuose."
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
P. convex, mammillate, squamulose; g. emarginato-adnexed; s. hollow, equal, flexuous; sp. smooth.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
