flexŭōsus, a, um, adj. [2. flexus], full of turns or windings, tortuous, flexuous, crooked, winding.
I Lit.: flexuosum iter habet auditus, ne quid intrare possit, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144: Taurus mons, Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 98: volatus hirundini, id. 10, 24, 35, § 73.— Sup. : intestina flexuosissimis orbibus, Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 200.—*
II Trop.: fraudes, Prud. Cath. 6, 143.—* Adv.: flexu-ōse , tortuously : si flexuose volitet flamma, Plin. 18, 35, 84, § 357.