flexile

adj

flexile

adj

Etymology From Latin flexil(em).

1

Flexible; capable of being repeatedly flexed without breaking.

  • Rooted in earth each cloven hoof descends, / And round and round her flexile neck she bends […].1789, Erasmus Darwin, The Loves of the Plants, J. Johnson, page 24:
Derived terms
semiflexile

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