Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
having turns or windings;
- Example: "the flexuous bed of the stream"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flexuous \Flex"u*ous\, a. [L. flexuosus, fr. flexus a bending,
turning.]
1. Having turns, windings, or flexures.
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2. (Bot.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions;
bent in a zigzag manner.
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3. Wavering; not steady; flickering. --Bacon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flexuous
adj 1: having turns or windings; "the flexuous bed of the
stream"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "flexuous":
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