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
P. rigid; s. slender, slightly flexuous; g. nearly free, fuscous-umber.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Differs from C. rancida in the short stem thickened at base, and not rooting; C. ozes differs from present in long, slender, flexuous stem. ozes, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Very similar, but smoother and deeper green, with more slender, linear-cylindric, more or less flexuous spikes, the lateral ones spreading or divaricate, and the sepals more frequently acute or acuminate.
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
G. blood-red or orange-red. uliginosus, B. P. 2-3 cm. conico-campan. then exp. strongly umb. bright red-brown or brick-red, flesh olive-yellow; g. adnate, yellow, olive, tan; s. 4-9 cm. flexuous, paler than p.; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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