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a.
Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
n.
The act of flexing or bending; a turning or curving; flexion; hence, obsequious bowing or bending.
n. pl.
A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.
n.
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
n.
Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
n.
A muscle which bends or flexes any part; as, the flexors of the arm or the hand; -- opposed to extensor.
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Flexuous.
n.
Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
v. t.
To bend; as, to flex the arm.
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Any one of numerous species of marine Bryozoa belonging to Vesicularia and allied genera. They have delicate tubular cells attached in clusters to slender flexible stems.
n.
The act of flexing or bending; a turning.
a.
Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language.
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n.
A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.
a.
Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure; as, flexural elasticity.
n. pl.
A tribe of Old World lizards which comprises the chameleon. They have long, flexible tongues.
a.
Long and flexible, like a wand.
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Having turns, windings, or flexures.
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Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.
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