Combining form of FLEXUOSE or FLEXUOUS, occas. prefixed to other adjs. to indicate a flexuous form or arrangement.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 227. A[stræa] flexuoso-convex. Ibid., 327. Lobes carinato-angular, and flexuoso-divaricate.

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1856.  W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 405. Antennæ in both sexes simple, flexuoso-clavate, with smooth apex.

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