sinuate
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A. réptans, L. Perennial, about 1° high, with copious creeping stolons; leaves obovate or spatulate, sometimes sinuate, the cauline sessile, the floral approximate, subtending several sessile blue flowers.—Naturalized near Saco, Maine, Montreal, etc.
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
Frequently the lower edge is notched at, or near, the stem and in this case they are said to be emarginate or sinuate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Thallus oblong, lobed and sinuate, somewhat fleshy, much thickened in the middle; capsule exserted.—On the ground in wet places; not uncommon eastward.
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. 8-12 cm. exp. obtuse, dry, rufous umber, innately squamulose, margin involute and downy at first; g. sinuate, crowded; s. 8-12 cm. solid, paler than p. apex white-pulverulent; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Gills sinuate behind; edge of pileus incurved when young; stem fibrous or fleshy.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
Correlated with this peculiarity the maxilla usually has the tomia sinuated, and is generally concave, and smaller and narrower than the mandible, which is also concave to receive the palatal knob.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
In the first, fourth, and eighth class the leaf differs from the rest; the fourth is more sinuated; the eighth has a large broad leaf not at all sinuated.
From A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship by Bligh, William
In Tuberacei, all the species are subterranean, and the hymenium is mostly sinuated.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
Shell nodulous; inner lip smooth, whitish; outer lip inflected, above sinuated, within striated, blackish purple; basal lobe not toothed.
From Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William
Fold upon fold—utterly, unspeakably arid—the flank of the main dune sinuated away towards the north-west.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)
