flexile

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“Soft grow her limbs, and flexile seem her bones; “Her nails their hardness lose.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

P. campan. obtuse, glabrous, slightly striate, tinged olive; g. crowded, cinnamon; s. very slender, flexile, glabrous, cinnamon; sp. 10-13 long.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

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

Radical leaves.—Very numerous; two or three feet long; about two lines broad; gracefully flexile; serrulate.

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

What think you of callas—their frozen calm kindled by the ruddy flush of azaleas, and their superb stateliness opposed by the flexile vivacity of the feathery willow acacia?

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various