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flexuous a. 弯曲的,动摇不定的,波状的 弯曲的,动摇不定的,波状的 flexuous adj 1: having turns or windings; " the flexuous bed of the stream" 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]
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] 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
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