a. Chiefly Bot. [ad. L. flexuōs-us, f. flexu-s sb. a bending (u-stem), f. flectĕre to bend.] Winding in and out, bending to and fro, serpentine, undulating, crooked.
1717. in Bailey, vol. II.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxvi. 393. The stem is a little flexuose or winding; and the flowers grow in erect, crowded, panicled racemes.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1828), III. xxxv. 673. In Lygæus Pharaonis the posterior pair are flexuose.
1845. Lindley, Sch. Bot., ix. (1858), 154 b. Funaria hygrometrica.… Stalk of sporangium curved, flexuose.
