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adjective

Undulated adj.

Resembling, or in the nature of, waves; having a wavy surface; undulatory.

(Bot.) Waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corolla; wavy.

(Zool.) Formed with elevations and depressions resembling waves; having wavelike color markings; as, an undulated shell.

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Etymology of 'Undulated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Undulated" Quotes from Famous Books

... cheeks, loosened coiffure tell their inevitable tale. Miss Benham looked as if she had just come from the hands of a very excellent maid. She looked as freshly soignee as she might have looked at eight that evening instead of at one. Not a wave of her perfectly undulated hair was loosened or displaced, not a fold of the lace at her breast had departed from ...

— Jason • Justus Miles Forman

... .. < chapter lviii 11 BRIT > Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon which the Right Whale largely feeds. For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that we seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe and golden wheat. On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure from the attack of a Sperm Whaler like the Pequod, ...

— Moby-Dick • Melville

... put his hand to the grass-encircled goal of the maiden's hopes and ball, its gloomy depths appeared to move, swirl round, rise up, as a small green snake uncoiled in haste and darted beneath Dam's approaching upturned hand, and swiftly undulated across ...

— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... into the Park, but the great masses of trees that undulated like a rough sea, prevented him from seeing anything. There were figures at the ...

— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine

... nature goes not straight forward, but by excessive action and then reaction in an undulated course, he misunderstood and abused his advantages, and became her temporal master instead of ...

— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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