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. campan. obtuse, slightly striate, hygr., rugulose, atomate, pale ochre, whitish, or tinged rose when dry; g. adnate, broad; s. 4-5 cm. slightly flexuous, white, apex scurfy; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

A single, long, grasslike leaf precedes the flexuous stem, with its quaintly arched and delicately fringed blossoms.

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

Parallel, flexuous or diverging fibers, extensible by increase in any or in all directions.

From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Butler, Thomas Belden