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Undulant

Undulant \Un"du*lant\, a. Undulating. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undulant

1830, from Latin undulantem (nominative undulans), from unda "wave" (see water (n.1)).

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undulant

a. Having the characteristics of a wave; wavelike

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Usage examples of "undulant".

Teocinte, Hota hired a carter to haul the trunk of a white oak to the crest of a hill from which he had a profile view of Griaule with the valley spreading beyond, an undulant reach of palms and palmettos, figs and aguacates, threaded by red dirt paths.

As of old, Ambulant, undulant drapery, Vaguery and strangely provocative, Fluttersd and beckons.

They were moving over the undulant hills north of the settlement by the river tracks along which the arangherds had come the previous day.

The snakes hastily sorted themselves out and whipped back into the shadowy corridor, heads stretched out with urgency, long black bodies all moving with the same undulant ripple.

But the investigation would show that the Impact and the Undulant were intruders in the Sibilant zone, exonerating the Sibilant.

Looking at her, Flint/Bopek reviewed the ideal criteria for the Undulant species, and found that Llyana was to Undulants as Honeybloom was to women.

And then, to the eastward where stout waves broke on the coral reef, thundering shoreward in long undulant swells whose tips were spumed in white, the missionaries witnessed for the first time one of the mysteries of the islands.

The snow on the pasture lands roundabout lay in undulant waves, like desert sand dunes, and this was a region of constant high winds that continuously resculptured the snow dunes and drove them, like real waves, across the railroad tracks.

With perhaps the exception of Mary Pickford and Francis the Talking Mule, entertainers in those days were largely an unseemly, unrefined, unpolished, uncouth, undulant, unplumbed, unzipped, undone, uncaged, unearthed, unbonneted rabble.

After kissing him smack on the mouth in front of everybody, the Junoesque doctor told him she'd wired a list of the observed symptoms all the way to the Surgeon General's office, and been assured they sure seemed to add up to Malta or what some now called undulant fever.

The host FGHJs caught something that caused a mild, undulant fever, and recovered.

It was something else, it was the unctuous, verminous ease, the undulant litheness and fluidity of his every movement, seeming to hint at an inner structure and vertebration that were less than human—or, one might almost have said, a sub-ophidian lack of all bony frame-work—which made me view the captive, and also my incumbent task, with an unparallelable distaste.