undulate
pronunciation
How to pronounce undulate in British English:
UK [ˈʌndjuleɪt]
How to pronounce undulate in American English:
US [ˈʌndʒəleɪt]
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- Verb:
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
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- Adjective:
- having a sinuate margin and rippled surface
Word Origin
- undulate
- undulate: [17] Undulate goes back ultimately to Latin unda ‘wave’, source also of English inundate [17], redundant, and surround. This in turn was descended from the Indo-European base *ud-, which also produced Greek húdōr ‘water’ (source of the English prefix hydro-), and variants of which lie behind English vodka, water, and wet.=> abound, inundate, redundant, sound, surround
- undulate (v.)
- "to move in waves," 1660s, back-formation from undulation. Related: undulated, undulating.
Example
- 1. Leaf margin remotely serrate or undulate , entire basally .
- 2. Passion and wateriness should alternately present as undulate .
- 3. We soon see afieldof wheat undulate in the breeze .
- 4. Margins of leaves undulate or denticulate .
- 5. Leaf blade margin undulate to serrate , secondary veins distinct .