flexious

English

Etymology

From flex +‎ -ious.

Adjective

flexious

1. (dated, uncommon) Having bendings, turnings or windings.
   • 1872, William Alfred Pallin, The Charlier Shoe: Its Advantages, Disadvantages, and Use, With Illustrations, page 12:

     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.

   • 1965, David Leigh Clark, Heteromorph Ammonoids from the Albian and Cenomanian of Texas and Adjacent Areas, page 36:

     O. davisense can be distinguished because the flexious ribs are about half as numerous per whorl as those of O. puzosiforme.

   • 1968, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (contributor), Corn (Maize) Viruses in the Continental United States and Canada, page 73:

     Flexious rods were not observed in cell preparation from healthy sorghum plants

   • 1989, Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Italy), Università di Bologna, Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology‎, volume 21, page 549:

     In addition flexious microtubules were seen between the membrane saccule and the fibrous deposits (Fig. 5b).