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undulate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Adjective
/ˈənjəˌlāt/,/ˈəndyə-/,
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undulated, past participle; undulates, 3rd person singular present; undulating, present participle; undulated, past tense;
  1. (esp. of a leaf) Having a wavy surface or edge

Verb
  1. Move with a smooth wavelike motion
    • - her body undulated to the thumping rhythm of the music
  2. Have a wavy form or outline
    • - delightful views over undulating countryside
  1. having a wavy margin and rippled surface
  2. ripple: stir up (water) so as to form ripples
  3. roll: occur in soft rounded shapes; "The hills rolled past"
  4. roll: move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; "The curtains undulated"; "the waves rolled towards the beach"
  5. increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves; "The singer's voice undulated"
  6. To cause to move in a wavelike motion; To cause to resemble a wave; To move in wavelike motions; To appear wavelike; Wavy in appearance or form; Changing the pitch and volume of one's voice; Winding up and down gradually relative to the blade
  7. (undulating) Moving up and down like waves; wavy; Forming a series of regular curves
  8. (UNDULATED) a course wave to the leaf blade; e.g. H.'Undulata'.
  9. (Undulated) mutation An alteration in the Pax1 gene of mice that results in several changes in body form that are reminiscent of the differences between hominiformid an proconsulid hominoids.
  10. (Undulating) To move in waves. Referring to the movement of a female fish's tail in a waving motion used to move gravel for the construction of a redd.
  11. (undulating) rising and falling in pitch. “He recited a lengthy prayer from the Koran, his nasal voice undulating through the sudden hush of the stadium’s crowd” (270).
  12. (v.) to move in waves (As the storm began to brew, the placid ocean began to undulate to an increasing degree.)
  13. A term used to describe the margins of leaves which are wavy (not flat) but not indented as in sinuate margins.
  14. of a leaf surface, wavy, not all of the lamina is in the same plane [image]
  15. with an edge or edges wavy in a vertical plane; may vary from weakly to strongly undulate or crisped. cf. crisped
  16. wavy; with transverse folds across a leaf, as in Neckera pennata.
  17. wavy but on a larger idea than corrugated would imply.
  18. (vb.): to move in waves or in a wavy manner
  19. (UN-dew-layt) -- With an up-and-down wavy margin on a leaf or petal, not waving in and out.
  20. Changes in the true diameter along the length of the hair shaft that results in change in the cross-sectional shape. This can give the hair a wavy appearance.
  21. (leaf):  wavy at 90 degrees to the surface of the leaf, like ripples on water.
  22. Furnished with wave-like markings
  23. a leaf margin that is wavy
  24. (leaf margin) : Having a wavy edge.
  25. Wavy along a margin.