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
Leaves.—Few; linear-lanceolate; the radical one or two much larger than those of the flexuous or erect stem.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
P. 4-5 cm. plano-depr. edge spreading, pallid, shining white when dry; g. subdecur. narrow, closely crowded; s. 4-5 cm. white, naked, flexuous; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. 1-2 cm. exp. acutely conical, slightly viscid and striate when moist, pallid, often tinged yellow or green; g. adnexed; s. 4-7 cm. flexuous, pallid; sp. 10-12 � 6. var. caerulescens, Cke.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
P. conic then convex, umb. not striate, yellowish fuscous, with silky pallid superficial flecks; g. decur. very broad behind, crowded, watery ochre; s. 6-9 cm. slender, elongated, flexuous, floccose, ochre or pale citrin; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
