flexuous
/ˈflɛksjʊəs
/adjective chiefly literary
Full of bends and curves: he put an arm around her flexuous waist...
- 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.
- 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.
- Electron microscopy revealed flexuous filamentous virus particles.
Derivatives
flexuosity
/ noun ...- Could a helicopter or fairy godmother raise you high enough, you would see that what seems like chaos below actually forms a regular repeating pattern of serpentine flexuosity.
flexuously
- It winds as flexuously as a ribbon
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin flexuosus, from flexus 'a bending', from the verb flectere.