flexuous

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Auden wanted to steer the art away from truth-claims and toward something more flexuous and subtle—a mode, not a message.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2013

Crown of 5 free membranaceous leaflets, which are truncate or obscurely lobed at the apex, where they bear a pair of flexuous awns united at base.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

P. 2-3 cm. conical then convex, yellow-brown, disc darkest; g. broadly adnate, broad, purple-umber, edge whitish; s. 5-6 cm. flexuous, pale, hollow; sp. obliquely elliptical, warted, 9-10 � 5-6. atrobrunnea, Lasch.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Capillitium arising out of the thickened base, the threads hyaline or pinkish, ascending, flexuous, simple, or branched a time or two, the extremities attached on all sides to the wall of the sporangium.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Differs from P. gracile in flexuous and scurfy s. and not rose-edged gills. var. expolita, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George