flexile

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The scrub is mostly dry, while the larger forests are comparatively damp, and often beautiful with flowering trees, small tree-ferns, and flexile climbers.

From Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Rostrum elongatum, rectum vel arcuatum, flexile, gracillimum, ad basin depressum, mandibul� superiore inferiorem amplectente et tant�m non obtegente.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

Radical-leaves.—Strongly ribbed underneath; dark, shining green above; one to three feet long; three to eight lines broad; flexile; rosy pink at base.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

These poems are exceedingly sweet and touching; yet they are all marked by the same flexile use of difficult rhythms and unprecedented rhymes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.

From The Husbands of Edith by McCutcheon, George Barr