Flexile [adjective]

He lay in the Englishwoman's gentle arms—a little brown bundle of flexile limbs and cotton night-shirt.

On the former supposition, the ovipositor must be remarkably long and flexile to enable the animal to place the eggs on its back.

The wonder was it did not crack under the strain; but Northern ice ahs the air of being strangely flexile.

The throwing of an ax was a little matter to the sharp-eyed and flexile-muscled cave men.

As the flexile youth progressed, amazement gave place to indignation and then to disgust.

It is wrought of all degrees of fineness, and is always so flexile that it may be folded and wound in any shape.

The red cedar, and the flexile pine,4 are the trees which appear at the greatest elevation.

The cut end was coated with collodion flexile to prevent evaporation.

Xenobi was a mere bud, of most flexile and graceful form, ripe and round as the spring fruit of the tropics.

This species is well adapted for rose carpets made by pegging down its long, flexile shoots.