flexile
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Radical leaves.—Very numerous; two or three feet long; about two lines broad; gracefully flexile; serrulate.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
“Soft grow her limbs, and flexile seem her bones; “Her nails their hardness lose.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
P. 1.5-2.5 cm. conico-campan. papillate, striate, somewhat bay; g. adnate, ascending; s. 3-7 cm. equal, flexile, even, reddish; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, striate, glabrous, hygr. even, opaque and rather silky when dry; stem slender, lax, flexile; gills broadly and abruptly adnate, broad, somewhat denticulate. vittaeformis, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Bounds on the arch-buffoon, with flexile face, With bagman smartness and batrachian grace.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various
