How To Use Flexuous In A Sentence
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Howard's full range of terms was: cirrus (for clouds made up of ‘parallel, flexuous, or dividing fibres’); cumulus (for convex or conical heaps, building upwards from a horizontal base); and stratus, horizontal sheets of cloud.
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What a kitten-like, flexuous, tender creature she was!
Life's Little Ironies
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Elsewhere it looked flexuous, here it looked vermiculated and lumpy, and her marine experiences suggested to her in a moment that two currents met and caused a turmoil at this place.
A Changed Man
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Bo had a flexuous and finely-drawn figure not unreminiscent of many a vanished knight and dame, her remote progenitors, whose dust now mouldered in many churchyards.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892
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The = stem = is very slender, flexuous, or straight, fistulose, tough, with soft hairs at the base, usually yellowish, sometimes the same color as the cap, and viscid like the cap when moist.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Miss Templeman deposited herself on the sofa in her former flexuous position, and throwing her arm above her brow -- somewhat in the pose of a well-known conception of Titian's -- talked up at Elizabeth-Jane invertedly across her forehead and arm.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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For physic carrieth men in narrow and restrained ways, subject to many accidents and impediments, imitating the ordinary flexuous courses of nature.
The Advancement of Learning
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The _inflorescence_ is 1 to 3 inches long, consisting of distant sessile fascicles of four to six spikelets; the _rachis_ of the spike is flexuous; the _rachis_ of the fascicles ends in three subulate empty glumes.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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This new interpretation accounts for its appearance as an extended flexuous series of cells, some of which are not seen to be in mutual contact, exhibiting nonlinear cell-size variation.
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It is a flying and lively and mysterious and magnificence world with the rich aesthetics which comes from flexuous line, life, fly, belief.
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This slouching, bending and re shaping my flexuous spine is a one of many bad side effects from writing and reading.
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But man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.
INSIDE OF A DOG
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-- Stem about 8 in. wide and long; globose, bearing fourteen to sixteen ridges, the edges of which are wavy or undulated, the prominent points crowned with tufts of thin, flexuous, yellow spines, the longest 1½ in., and hooked, the shorter ¾ in., and straight.
Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
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Branches numerous, flexuous, with small branchlets or joints springing from the ends in clusters, smooth, round, the thickness of whipcord, leafless, with numerous brown, dot-like marks scattered over the surface; under a lens these dots are seen to be tufts of very fine hairs.
Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
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Bo had a flexuous and finely-drawn figure not unreminiscent of many a vanished knight and dame, her remote progenitors, whose dust now mouldered in many churchyards.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892
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Flexuous - ose: almost zig-zag, without acute angles but more acute at angles than undulating: differs from sinuate in being alternately bent and nearly straight.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
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It is found that the migration pathways are usually flexuous and look like branches of tree. Gas always migrates forward along the limited pathway where the capillary force is lowest.
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_Spikes_ are from 1/2 to 2 inches; _rachis_ is slender, flexuous, flattened, scaberulous, with a few long hairs scattered singly along the margins or without these hairs.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Electron microscopy revealed flexuous filamentous virus particles.
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The fine brushwork figure painting goes through a flexuous exploration process . 3.
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The _inflorescence_ is a raceme of spikes, varying from 1-1/2 to 3-1/2 inches, with the spikes mostly densely arranged, though occasionally distant and not close-set, on a long; slender, puberulous or scaberulous peduncle; _rachis_ is flexuous, flattened, grooved and scaberulous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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the flexuous bed of the stream