Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling waves in occurrence, appearance, or motion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Undulating; undulatory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Undulating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the characteristics of a
wave ;wavelike
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling waves in form or outline or motion
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Examples
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The student, whose name and gender has not been disclosed by Texas A&M to Sunshine, apparently came down with the disease, also known as undulant fever, attempting to clean what is called a Madison Aerosol Chamber (MAC) where mice had been exposed to aerosolized brucella particles.
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Was the "undulant" philosophy of Monsieur de Montaigne, in collusion with this dislocating time, at work upon him, that, following with only too entire a mobility the experience of the hour, he found himself more than he could have thought possible the toy of external accident?
Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance Walter Pater 1866
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The cello joins in with a pensive melodic line that responds to the violin, while the piano gradually prods the music forward with undulant riffs.
A New Williams Work for a Momentous Occasion - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The cello joins in with a pensive melodic line that responds to the violin, while the piano gradually prods the music forward with undulant riffs.
A New Williams Work for a Momentous Occasion - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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In the background were undulant palm fronds, and the blunt, inky silhouette of a promontory, unmistakably Diamond Head.
Happy Landings David Ackley 2011
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In the distance, over at the deep end, Aurelio's crew is doing as instructed, forming a brigade to empty their jerry cans, creating undulant and planar rainbows of mower gas.
Centipede Joe Kapitan 2011
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No one has gone any further with this, and the electricity of her song about beards, listing, growing more undulant, crescendos.
Monolith Tantra Bensko 2011
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Ghost rains sweep down, smearing his rugged sides, yet on he writhes, undulant with pine and palm, gleaming until his low, sharp head and lambent tongue, grown gray and pale and silver in the dying day, kisses the molten gold of the golden sea.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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His mouth agape, the volcanic release from within climbing up his throat, pouring out of him, an undulant wave sweeping over, through, and around his body.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010
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To get those undulant tastes that strike a deep chord rather than the superficial tastes you get with modern food, that for me is exciting, it's almost like I'm a culinary archeologist.
seanmeade commented on the word undulant
Undulant is from Late Latin undula, "a small wave," diminutive of Latin unda, "wave."
March 30, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word undulant
really? I thought "ant" was a present participle formation, which would make undare or undulare (verbs) more likely the root?
March 31, 2007
palooka commented on the word undulant
Meaning wavelike in motion or appearance.
February 8, 2008