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flexicostate

flexicostate adjective: having bent or curved ribs.

Adjective

flexicostate (comparative more flexicostate, superlative most flexicostate)

  1. Having bent or curved ribs.
  2. Bent or curved.

Forms of flexicostate

comparativemore flexicostate
superlativemost flexicostate

Origin of flexicostate

From Latin flexus (“bent”) + costate.

Questions about flexicostate

What does flexicostate mean?
Flexicostate means having bent or curved ribs.
What part of speech is flexicostate?
Flexicostate is an adjective.

Words near flexicostate in the dictionary

  1. flexibles
  2. flexibly
  3. flexibound
  4. flexicities
  5. flexicity
  6. flexicostate
  7. flexicuffs
  8. flexicurity
  9. flexicurve
  10. flexicurves
  11. flexid

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