| 单词 |
flexuous |
| 释义 |
flexuous, a.|ˈflɛksjuːəs|
[ad. L. flexuōs-us: see flexuose and -ous.]
1. Full of bends or curves; winding, sinuous. Now chiefly in scientific use, said of animal or vegetable structures.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. vi. §6. 28 Imitating the ordinarie flexuous courses of Nature. a1661Fuller Worthies Barks. (1662) 81 The flexuous River of Thames. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. I. 420 Lateral line flexuous; tail slightly bilobate. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. x, Her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace. 1874T. Hardy Madding Crowd I. xxv. 282 About equal proportions of gnarled and flexuous forms, the former being the men, the latter the women.
2. Moving in bends or waves, undulating. rare.
1626Bacon Sylva §820 The Flexuous Burning of Flames doth shew the Aire beginneth to be vnquiet. 1872Darwin Emotions Introd. 11 Man cannot express love..by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with..flexuous body..he meets his beloved master.
Hence ˈflexuously adv., in a flexuous manner.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 382 Flexuously branched stems. 1872H. C. Wood Fresh-w. Algæ 34 Flexuously curved. |
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