Meaning of FLEXUOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'flekshoous
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| | Definition: | | [adj] having turns or windings; "the flexuous bed of the stream" |
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| | Synonyms: | | curved, curving |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Flex"u*ous\, a. [L. flexuosus, fr. flexus a bending,
turning.]
1. Having turns, windings, or flexures.
2. (Bot.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions;
bent in a zigzag manner.
3. Wavering; not steady; flickering. --Bacon.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Bent from side to side in a zig-zag form. |
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| Thesaurus Terms |
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| | Related Terms: | | adaptable, ambagious, anfractuous, bendable, bending, bendy, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, circumlocutory, compliant, convoluted, convolutional, crankled, crooked, curvy, ductile, elastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fictile, flexible, flexile, formable, formative, giving, hairpin, impressible, impressionable, involute, involuted, involutional, labyrinthine, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, mazy, meandering, meandrous, moldable, plastic, pliable, pliant, receptive, responsive, rivose, rivulose, roundabout, ruffled, sensitive, sequacious, serpentine, shapable, sinuate, sinuose, sinuous, snaky, springy, staggered, submissive, supple, susceptible, torsional, tortile, tortuous, tractable, tractile, turning, twisting, twisty, whippy, whorled, willowy, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, yielding, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways |
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