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
Low, decumbent, somewhat woody, diffusely branched, puberulent; branches slender, flexuous; leaves narrow; flowers few, small; capsules pubescent, about equalling the pedicel.
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. 2-3 cm. exp. subumb. with livid purple gluten that disappears, then pale; g. adnate, pale brown; s. 4-7 cm. flexuous, white, fibrillose below distant imperfect ring; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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
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
