flexile
Example Sentences
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After soaking in hot water, the overgrown horny layer is pared away, and the part painted daily with a saturated solution of salicylic acid in flexile collodion.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
P. campan. obtuse, glabrous, slightly striate, tinged olive; g. crowded, cinnamon; s. very slender, flexile, glabrous, cinnamon; sp. 10-13 long.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.
From The Husbands of Edith by McCutcheon, George Barr
What think you of callas—their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia?
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
Second—The Star Tulips, having low, flexile stems, erect, starlike flowers, with spreading petals, and nodding capsules.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
