flexuous

Mar. 22nd, 2012 07:37 am
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flexuous or flexuose (FLEK-shoo-uhs) - adj., full of bends and curves, sinuous; lithe or fluid in movement; Wavering, not steady, variable.


"gardens bright with sinuous rills." Borrowed around 1605 from Latin flexuĊsus, full of bends, tortuous, from flexus, a bending, from flectere, to bend.

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