'Flexuous' definitions:
Definition of 'flexuous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having turns or windings; "the flexuous bed of the stream"
Definition of 'Flexuous'
From: GCIDE
- Flexuous \Flex"u*ous\, a. [L. flexuosus, fr. flexus a bending, turning.]
- 1. Having turns, windings, or flexures. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wavering; not steady; flickering. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'flexuous'
From: GCIDE
- curved \curved\ adj.
- 1. not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of straight.
- Note: [Narrower terms: {arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed}; falcate, sickle-shaped; flexuous; incurvate, incurved: recurved, recurvate; semicircular: serpentine, snaky: {sinuate, sinuous, wavy}: sinusoidal]
- Syn: curving. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. (Botany) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of orthotropous.
- Syn: campylotropous. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'flexuous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adaptable,
- ambagious,
- anfractuous,
- bendable,
- bending,
- bendy,
- chevronwise,
- chevrony,
- circuitous,
- circumlocutory,
- compliant,
- convoluted,
- convolutional,
- crankled,
- crooked,
- curvy,
- ductile,
- elastic,
- extensible,
- extensile,
- fabricable,
- facile,
- fictile,
- flexible,
- flexile,
- flexuose,
- formable,
- formative,
- giving,
- hairpin,
- impressible,
- impressionable,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- labyrinthine,
- like putty,
- limber,
- lissome,
- lithe,
- lithesome,
- malleable,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- moldable,
- plastic,
- pliable,
- pliant,
- receptive,
- responsive,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roundabout,
- ruffled,
- sensitive,
- sequacious,
- serpentine,
- shapable,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- springy,
- staggered,
- submissive,
- supple,
- susceptible,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- tractable,
- tractile,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- whippy,
- whorled,
- willowy,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- yielding,
- zigzag,
- zigzaggy,
- zigzagways