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单词 sinuate
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sinuateadj.

/ˈsɪnjuːət/
Etymology: < Latin sinuātus, past participle of sinuāre , < sinus sinus n.; compare French sinué.
1. Botany. Of leaves: Having a margin made wavy or uneven by alternate rounded and somewhat large sinuses and lobes; sinuous. Also similarly in Entomology of wing-cases, etc.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [adjective] > margin or periphery > having a wavy margin
sinuate1688
sinuated1727
crisp1753
repanded1753
repand1760
crisped1802
wavy1832
crispate1846
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 117/2 Sinuate leaves, such as are crooked, bent or crumpled about the edges.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. 175 Sinuate, hollowed; when they have broad and spreading Openings in the Sides.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xii. 132 The Wild Clary has the leaves serrate or sinuate, and smoothish.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxi. 258 The margins of these cases are sinuate.
1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 290 The leaves are large, ovate, smooth, unequally sinuate.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 212 A rudimentary branching, as in indented, toothed, and sinuate leaves.
2. Ornithology. (See quot. 1872.)
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having beak or bill > of part or process of
cerigerous1856
cereless1862
tomial1866
cerous1869
paragnathous1872
sinuate1872
ceral1874
interramal1874
palaeognathous1933
prokinetic1960
rhynchokinetic1960
1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 30 The gape is..curved, sinuate, when they [sc. rictus and tomia] lie in the same curved or waved line.

Compounds

sinuate-angular, sinuate-dentate, sinuate-lobate, sinuate-pinnatifid, sinuate-runcinate, sinuate-serrate, sinuate-undulate; sinuate-leaved, sinuate-lobed, sinuate-toothed.
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1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. S Sinuato-angulosum, a sinuate-angular leaf.
1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. S Sinuato-dentatum, a sinuate-toothed leaf.
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 152 Sinuate-leaved Mad Wort.
1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 11 Leaves cordate at base,..lower sinuate-runcinate.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 335 Leaves..of branches..sinuate-lobed.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 335 Leaves..of branches..sinuate-serrate.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

sinuatev.

Etymology: < participial stem of Latin sinuāre: compare sinuate adj.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsinuate.
rare.
intransitive. To creep or crawl in a winding course.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > creep or crawl
creepc888
rampa1393
crawla1400
trainc1475
ycraul1594
sinuate1848
belly1903
1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 64 104 When you are sinuating like a serpent towards the especial stag of your heart.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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