What does sinuate mean?

Definitions for sinuate
ˈsɪn yu ɪt, -ˌeɪtsin·u·ate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sinuate, sinuous, wigglyadjective

    curved or curving in and out

    "wiggly lines"

  2. sinuateadjective

    having a strongly waved margin alternately concave and convex

Wiktionary

  1. sinuateverb

    To advance in wavy or curvy manner, to bend, to curve, to wind in and out

    A road that sinuates through the valley.

  2. sinuateadjective

    sinuous

  3. sinuateadjective

    Having wavy indentation on its border or edge.

  4. sinuateadjective

    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.

  5. Etymology: sinuatus, past participle of sinuare to wind, bend, from sinus a bend.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To SINUATEverb

    To bend in and out.

    Etymology: sinuo, Latin.

    Another was very perfect, somewhat less with the margin, and more sinuated. John Woodward, on Fossils.

Wikipedia

  1. sinuate

    A leaf is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, flower, and fruit collectively form the shoot system. In most leaves, the primary photosynthetic tissue is the palisade mesophyll and is located on the upper side of the blade or lamina of the leaf but in some species, including the mature foliage of Eucalyptus, palisade mesophyll is present on both sides and the leaves are said to be isobilateral. Most leaves are flattened and have distinct upper (adaxial) and lower (abaxial) surfaces that differ in color, hairiness, the number of stomata (pores that intake and output gases), the amount and structure of epicuticular wax and other features. Leaves are mostly green in color due to the presence of a compound called chlorophyll that is essential for photosynthesis as it absorbs light energy from the sun. A leaf with lighter-colored or white patches or edges is called a variegated leaf. Leaves can have many different shapes, sizes, textures and colors. The broad, flat leaves with complex venation of flowering plants are known as megaphylls and the species that bear them, the majority, as broad-leaved or megaphyllous plants, which also includes acrogymnosperms and ferns. In the lycopods, with different evolutionary origins, the leaves are simple (with only a single vein) and are known as microphylls. Some leaves, such as bulb scales, are not above ground. In many aquatic species, the leaves are submerged in water. Succulent plants often have thick juicy leaves, but some leaves are without major photosynthetic function and may be dead at maturity, as in some cataphylls and spines. Furthermore, several kinds of leaf-like structures found in vascular plants are not totally homologous with them. Examples include flattened plant stems called phylloclades and cladodes, and flattened leaf stems called phyllodes which differ from leaves both in their structure and origin. Some structures of non-vascular plants look and function much like leaves. Examples include the phyllids of mosses and liverworts.

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  1. sinuate

    Sinuate refers to something having a wavy, curved or indented form, especially in the context of leaf margins or the edges of certain anatomical structures. It describes something that is marked with a series of curves or bends.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sinuateverb

    to bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous

  2. Etymology: [L. sinuatus, p. p. of sinuare to wind, bend, fr. sinus a bend.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sinuate

    -d, sin′ū-āt, -ed, adj. curved: (bot.) with a waved margin.—v.t. to bend in and out.—ns. Sinuā′tion; Sinuos′ity, quality of being sinuous: a bend or series of bends and turns.—adjs. Sin′uous, Sin′uōse, bending in and out, winding, undulating: morally crooked.—adv. Sin′uously. [L. sinuatus, pa.p. of sinuāre, to bend.]

Entomology

  1. Sinuate

    cut into sinuses; applied to lines and margins with an in and out curve.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sinuate in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sinuate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8


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