Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
flexuous , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Flexuous.
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- adjective Alternative form of
flexuous .
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Examples
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Sometimes it is a mere exaggeration of a normal condition; thus, in what are termed flexuose stems the stem twists alternately to one side or another, frequently in association with an oblique form of the leaf.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The indigo plant, SWAINSONA GALEGIFOLIA, is a glabrous perennial, or undershrub, with erect flexuose branches, sometimes under one foot, sometimes ascending, or even climbing, to the height of several feet.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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-- N.S. (Fig. 148.) Shell small, thick, sub-turbinate; whirls, seven or eight, and ornamented by flexuose ribs, which extend across the whirl; ribs alternating with those of the adjacent whirl.
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-- N.S. (Fig. 165.) Shell thin and delicate; whirls about four, ornamented with rather flexuose, sharp, longitudinal ribs.
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