flexious
adjEtymology From flex + -ious.
- 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.1872, William Alfred Pallin, The Charlier Shoe: Its Advantages, Disadvantages, and Use, With Illustrations, page 12:
- O. davisense can be distinguished because the flexious ribs are about half as numerous per whorl as those of O. puzosiforme.1965, David Leigh Clark, Heteromorph Ammonoids from the Albian and Cenomanian of Texas and Adjacent Areas, page 36:
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- Flexious rods were not observed in cell preparation from healthy sorghum plants1968, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (contributor), Corn (Maize) Viruses in the Continental United States and Canada, page 73:
- In addition flexious microtubules were seen between the membrane saccule and the fibrous deposits (Fig. 5b).1989, Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche (Italy), Università di Bologna, Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology and Pathology, volume 21, page 549: