flexuose, a. Chiefly Bot.
(flɛksjuːˈəʊs)
[ad. L. flexuōs-us, f. flexu-s n. a bending (u-stem), f. flectĕre to bend.]
Winding in and out, bending to and fro, serpentine, undulating, crooked.
| 1727 in Bailey vol. II. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxvi. 393 The stem is a little flexuose or winding. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxv. 673 In Lygæus Pharaonis the posterior pair are flexuose. 1845 Lindley Sch. Bot. ix. (1858) 154 Stalk of sporangium curved, flexuose. |