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sinuous
(encz) | sinuous,klikatý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
sinuous
(encz) | sinuous,vlnitý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Sinuous
(gcide) | Sinuous \Sin"u*ous\, a. [L. sinuosus, fr. sinus a bent surface,
a curve: cf. F. sinueux. See Sinus.]
Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form;
winding; crooked. -- Sin"u*ous*ly, adv.
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Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. --Milton.
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Gardens bright with sinuous rills. --Coleridge.
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sinuous
(wn) | sinuous
adj 1: curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn:
sinuate, sinuous, wiggly] |
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sinuously
(encz) | sinuously,vlnitě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
sinuousness
(encz) | sinuousness, n: |
sinuate sinuous wavy
(gcide) | 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.
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Sinuous
(gcide) | Sinuous \Sin"u*ous\, a. [L. sinuosus, fr. sinus a bent surface,
a curve: cf. F. sinueux. See Sinus.]
Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form;
winding; crooked. -- Sin"u*ous*ly, adv.
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Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. --Milton.
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Gardens bright with sinuous rills. --Coleridge.
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Sinuously
(gcide) | Sinuous \Sin"u*ous\, a. [L. sinuosus, fr. sinus a bent surface,
a curve: cf. F. sinueux. See Sinus.]
Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form;
winding; crooked. -- Sin"u*ous*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace. --Milton.
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Gardens bright with sinuous rills. --Coleridge.
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sinuously
(wn) | sinuously
adv 1: in a sinuous manner |
sinuousness
(wn) | sinuousness
n 1: having curves; "he hated the sinuosity of mountain roads"
[syn: sinuosity, sinuousness] |
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