3syllables
meanders
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Definitions ofmeanders
1noun
- A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif, that is commonly found in Greek art.
Synonyms: "Greek fret", meander
- A structural motif in proteins consisting of four adjacent antiparallel strands and their linking loops.
1noun
- One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
Example: "the meanders of an old river, or of the veins and arteries in the body"
- A tortuous or intricate movement.
- One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- Fretwork.
- Perplexity.
- A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
1verb
- To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
Example: "The stream meandered through the valley."
- To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
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