EGAVE

sinuate

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To advance in wavy or curvy manner, to bend, to curve, to wind in and out
    A road that sinuates through the valley.
  2. adjective sinuous
  3. adjective Having wavy indentation on its border or edge.
  4. adjective Roughly the same height for most of its length, becoming much shallower and then curving back towards the stem before reaching the attachment point.
    In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is sinuate.

Similar words

sinuous curved curving smooth wiggly incurvate incurve curve twist meander

Often followed by

in at and or on laterally to before behind

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