flexuous
pronunciation
How to pronounce flexuous in British English:
UK ['flekʃʊəs]
How to pronounce flexuous in American English:
US ['flekʃʊrs]
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- Adjective:
- having turns or windings
Word Origin
- flexuous (adj.)
- "full of bends or curves, winding, sinuous," c. 1600, from Latin flexuosus, from flexus (n.) "a bending," from flectere "to bend" (see flexible). From 1620s as "undulating."
Example
- 1. Fruit cylindrical to oblique-ovoid or ellipsoid to ellipsoid-ovoid ; filaments flexuous .
- 2. Leaf blade apex obtuse or rarely retuse or mucronate ; midvein apically slightly flexuous .
- 3. During the cold war , the relationship between china and asean countries had experienced a flexuous process .
- 4. Panicle branches slender , flexuous , often longer than spikelets ; lemmas pubescent .
- 5. Stems numerous , more than 40 cm tall , usually flexuous and ascending , branched basally or unbranched ; branches and leaves opposite .