The Collaborative International Dictionary
curved \curved\ adj.
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not straight; having or marked by curves. Opposite of straight.
Note: [Narrower terms: arced, arched, arching, arciform, arcuate, bowed; falcate, sickle-shaped; flexuous; incurvate, incurved: recurved, recurvate; semicircular: serpentine, snaky: sinuate, sinuous, wavy: sinusoidal]
Syn: curving.
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(Botany) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk; -- of a plant ovule. Opposite of orthotropous.
Syn: campylotropous.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"full of bends or curves, winding, sinuous," c.1600, from Latin flexuosus, from flexus (n.) "a bending," from flectere "to bend" (see flexible). From 1620s as "undulating."
Wiktionary
a. winding from side to side; sinuous
WordNet
adj. having turns or windings; "the flexuous bed of the stream"
Usage examples of "flexuous".
She had caught up her castanets, and rattled them as she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace, her diamond eyes glittering, her round arms wreathing and unwinding, alive and vibrant to the tips of the slender fingers.
But anon certain strange dark patches in the landscape, flexuous and riband-shaped, are discerned to be moving slowly.
These consist in the head and whole body being lowered and thrown into flexuous movements, with the tail extended and wagged from side to side.