Meaning

3 senses

  1. Sinuous

  2. Having wavy indentation on its border or edge.

  3. 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.

More definitions
  • having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex
  • curved or curving in and out

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Latin sinuatus, past participle of sinuare (“to wind, bend”), from sinus (“a bend”).

From Latin sinuatus, past participle of sinuare (“to wind, bend”), from sinus (“a bend”). See also sine, from Latin sinus.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

more sinuate, most sinuate
Comparativemore sinuate Lesson
Superlativemost sinuate Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Derivedbisinuatesinuatelysinuolatesubsinuatetrisinuate

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sinkersinkholesinnersinuoussinussip
sinuate — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto