flexuous
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flexuous \Flex"u*ous\, a. [L. flexuosus, fr. flexus a bending,
turning.]
1. Having turns, windings, or flexures.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions;
bent in a zigzag manner.
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3. Wavering; not steady; flickering. --Bacon.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
curved \curved\ adj.
1. not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of
{straight}.
Note: [Narrower terms: {arced, arched, arching, arciform,
arcuate, bowed}; {falcate, sickle-shaped}; {flexuous};
{incurvate, incurved}: {recurved, recurvate};
{semicircular}: {serpentine, snaky}: {sinuate, sinuous,
wavy}: {sinusoidal}]
Syn: curving.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. (Botany) curved with the micropyle near the base almost
touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of
{orthotropous}.
Syn: campylotropous.
[WordNet 1.5]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "flexuous":
adaptable, ambagious, anfractuous, bendable, bending, bendy,
chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, circumlocutory, compliant,
convoluted, convolutional, crankled, crooked, curvy, ductile,
elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile,
flexible, flexile, flexuose, formable, formative, giving, hairpin,
impressible, impressionable, involute, involuted, involutional,
labyrinthine, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome,
malleable, mazy, meandering, meandrous, moldable, plastic, pliable,
pliant, receptive, responsive, rivose, rivulose, roundabout,
ruffled, sensitive, sequacious, serpentine, shapable, sinuate,
sinuose, sinuous, snaky, springy, staggered, submissive, supple,
susceptible, torsional, tortile, tortuous, tractable, tractile,
turning, twisting, twisty, whippy, whorled, willowy, winding,
wreathlike, wreathy, yielding, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways
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