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▪ I. sinuate, a.|ˈsɪnjuːət|
[ad. L. sinuāt-us, pa. pple. of sinuāre, f. sinus sinus; cf. F. sinué.]
1. Bot. Of leaves: Having a margin made wavy or uneven by alternate rounded and somewhat large sinuses and lobes; sinuous. Also similarly in Ent. of wing-cases, etc.
1688Holme Armoury ii. 117/2 Sinuate leaves, such as are crooked, bent or crumpled about the edges. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. (1765) 179 Sinuate, hollowed; when they have broad and spreading Openings in the Sides. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xii. (1794) 126 The Wild Clary has the leaves serrate, sinuate, and smoothish. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxi. 258 The margins of these cases are sinuate. 1871Garrod Mat. Med. (ed. 3) 290 The leaves are large, ovate, smooth, unequally sinuate. 1882Vines tr. Sachs's Bot. 212 A rudimentary branching, as in indented, toothed, and sinuate leaves.
b. Comb., as sinuate-angular, sinuate-dentate, sinuate-lobate, sinuate-pinnatifid, sinuate-runcinate, sinuate-serrate, sinuate-undulate; sinuate-leaved, sinuate-lobed, sinuate-toothed.
1793Martyn Lang. Bot., Sinuato-angulosum, a sinuate-angular leaf. Ibid., Sinuato-dentatum, a sinuate-toothed leaf. 1822Hortus Anglicus II. 152 Sinuate-leaved Mad Wort. 1847W. E. Steele Field Bot. 11 Leaves cordate at base,..lower sinuate-runcinate. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 335 Leaves..of branches..sinuate-lobed. Ibid., Leaves..of branches..sinuate-serrate.
2. Ornith. (See quot.)
1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 30 The gape is..curved, sinuate, when they [sc. rictus and tomia] lie in the same curved or waved line.
▪ II. ˈsinuate, v. rare—1.
[f. ppl. stem of L. sinuāre: cf. prec.]
intr. To creep or crawl in a winding course.
1848Blackw. Mag. LXIV. 104 When you are sinuating like a serpent towards the especial stag of your heart. |