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flexious

flexious adjective: having bendings, turnings or windings.

Adjective

flexious

  1. (dated, uncommon) Having bendings, turnings or windings.
    • while the fibrous structure of the frog assumes a tubular form, becomes finer, softer, and has a flexious arrangement; is tough, elastic, and flexible, being admirably adapted for protecting delicate parts and breaking concussion.1872, William Alfred Pallin, The Charlier Shoe: Its Advantages, Disadvantages, and Use, With Illustrations, page 12
    • O. davisense can be distinguished because the flexious ribs are about half as numerous per whorl as those of O. puzosiforme.1965, David Leigh Clark, Heteromorph Ammonoids from the Albian and Cenomanian of Texas and Adjacent Areas, page 36

Examples of flexious in a sentence

  • Flexious rods were not observed in cell preparation from healthy sorghum plants1968, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (contributor), Corn (Maize) Viruses in the Continental United States...
  • In addition flexious microtubules were seen between the membrane saccule and the fibrous deposits (Fig. 5b).1989, Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Italy), Università di Bologna, Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology, volume 21, page...

Origin of flexious

From flex + -ious.

Questions about flexious

What does flexious mean?
Flexious means having bendings, turnings or windings.
How do you use flexious in a sentence?
Flexious rods were not observed in cell preparation from healthy sorghum plants
What part of speech is flexious?
Flexious is an adjective.

Words near flexious in the dictionary

  1. flexings
  2. flexion
  3. flexional
  4. flexionless
  5. flexions
  6. flexious
  7. flexirubin
  8. flexis
  9. flexisexual
  10. flexisexuality
  11. flexistylous

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