sinuate
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Leaves obovate, sinuate and toothed; lower joint of the fruit obovoid, emarginate; the upper ovate, flattish at the apex.—Coast of the Northern States and of the Great Lakes.
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. exp. obtuse, naked, bay, edge tawny; g. slightly sinuate, yellow then tawny; s. fibrillose, tawny bay. petiginosum, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Frequently the lower edge is notched at, or near, the stem and in this case they are said to be emarginate or sinuate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
Inserted period after "g" on page 168: "g. slightly sinuate."
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 4-6 mm. hemispherical, brown, paler towards striate margin, sprinkled with minute particles; g. adnexed, sinuate; s. 1.5-2 cm. umber, paler upwards, everywhere pulverulent; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
In the first, fourth, and eighth class the leaf differs from the rest; the fourth is more sinuated; the eighth has a large broad leaf not at all sinuated.
From A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship by William Bligh
Fold upon fold—utterly, unspeakably arid—the flank of the main dune sinuated away towards the north-west.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
The leaves are short and small, dark-green, with white veins, much sinuated, deeply indented, and form a regular radius round the flower.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
Head greenish yellow, deeply punctured, a black band, sinuated in front between the eyes, on the back part of the head.
In Tuberacei, all the species are subterranean, and the hymenium is mostly sinuated.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke