meandrine

English

Adjective

meandrine (comparative more meandrine, superlative most meandrine)

  1. (biology, geology) Winding and convoluted.
    • 1932, Isabella Gordon, Pycnogonida, page 302:
      The surface may be almost smooth or thrown into meandrine folds, to an extent far greater than suggested by Ridley and Dendy's illustration; and there are all stages between these two extremes.
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