ppl. a. [Cf. prec. and UNDULATE a.]
1. Formed into a waved surface or outline; arranged in a series of wave-like curves.
1623. Cockeram, I. Vndulated, made like the waues of the Sea.
1673. Grew, Anat. Trunks, I. i. § 3. Next there is an undulated Ring of other Lymphæducts.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Supp. s.v. Leaf, Undulated leaf, that whose … edges are necessitated to rise and fall in a regular manner.
1783. Phil. Trans., LXXIII. 181. The bridge has taken an undulated form, and the rail on each side is curiously scolloped.
a. 1853. Pereira, Polarized Light (1854), 117. A series of rods disposed horizontally in an undulated form, so as to represent a system of plane waves.
1873. J. Tomes, Dental Surg. (ed. 2), 7. The inferior edge of the lower jaw … is undulated.
b. Of ground, hills, etc. (Cf. UNDULATING 2 b.)
1821. T. Nuttall, Trav. Arkansa, 11. Over a deeply undulated country.
1845. E. Warburton, Crescent & Cross, I. 15. An amphitheatre of finely undulated hills.
1893. Sir H. Howorth, Glacial Nightmare, I. 59. A small elevated plain, slightly undulated.
2. Furnished or diversified with wavy markings.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva, xxv. 65. The Roots of this [Box] Tree do furnish the … Cabinet-makers with pieces rarely undulated.
1706. Phillips [see UNDULATE a. 1].
1787. [see 2 b].
1798. Lond. Gaz., 20 Nov. A Chief undulated Argent, thereon Waves of the Sea.
1811. Shaw, Gen. Zool., VIII. 469. Yellowish Green Parrakeet, undulated above with brown.
b. spec. In the names of birds or fishes.
1785. Latham, Gen. Synop. Birds, III. 333. Undulated Flycatcher. Ibid. (1787), Suppl. 225. Undulated Trumpeter;… the plumage … of a pale reddish brown, beautifully undulated with black.
1803. Shaw, Gen. Zool., IV. 223. Undulated Coryphene. Ibid. (1811), VIII. 469. Undulated Parrakeet.
