flexile

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The purple clematis, twisting its flexile branches with those of the pale woodbine, formed a sweet and fragrant canopy to the arched bower, while the flowery tendrils hung down on all sides.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

One is an admirable imitation of Indian corn in tassel, the silky fibres as fine and flexile as can be imagined; another is a group of ostrich plumes, so downy that a zephyr waves it.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

Pileus membranaceous, campanulate, striate, glabrous, hygr. even, opaque and rather silky when dry; stem slender, lax, flexile; gills broadly and abruptly adnate, broad, somewhat denticulate. vittaeformis, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The members of the genus fall naturally into three general groups:— First—The Globe Tulips, which have flexile stems, sub-globose, nodding flowers, and nodding capsules.

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

Who knows now, but that flexile gracefulness, however questionable at the time of that thirtieth boy of yours, might have been the silky husk of the most solid qualities of maturity.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman