wavy

Word family

wav·y /ˈweɪvi/ adjectiveadj

1. DCBwavy hair grows in waves 〔头发〕波浪形的，卷曲的 →5 see picture at 见图 hairstyle

2. CFa wavy line is smoothly curved 〔线〕波形的，波纹的 →5 see picture at 见图 curved

Examples from the Corpus

wavy• When growing emerse, the leaves are short, oval and wavy.• The flag's stripes are wavy and alternate in color.• The margins of the valves are often wavy, and deeply folded in other species.• Her short wavy black hair was combed neatly back from a rather narrow sloping forehead with prominent brow ridges.• If that friend has Netscape animation, the sonnet will do a wavy dance.• It sort of humped up in the middle, sucking water with it, shrugging sprays of water from its wavy edges!• He wore his carefully combed wavy hair, dark brown with tinges of gray, rather long.• A series of wavy lines appeared on the video monitor.• Eventually we came across a rope of animal tracks dropped across the pan, its wavy parallels disappearing into shimmer.• To others it is the wavy symbol of the primal waters attached to the cross of matter.

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 20222 COCA: 13750

wavy

Describing and relating to lines: continuous, convergent, diagonal...