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/ˈəndʒəlˌeɪtəd/ Listen

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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... aurantium fructu variabili," which on the young shoots produces rounded-oval leaves spotted with yellow, borne on petioles with heart-shaped wings; when these leaves fall off, they are succeeded by longer and narrower leaves, with undulated margins, of a pale-green colour embroidered with yellow, borne on footstalks without wings. The fruit whilst young is pear-shaped, yellow, longitudinally striated, and sweet; but as it ripens, it becomes spherical, of a reddish-yellow, ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... had stopped at six. On each mattress a crude imitation of humanity, wrapped ear-high in its blanket, lay and drank from a cup like mine and spat long and high into the room. The ponderous reek of sleepy bodies undulated toward me from three directions. I had lost sight of the vulture in a kind of insane confusion which arose from the further end of the room. It was as if he had touched off six high explosives. Occasional pauses in the minutely crazy din were accurately ...

— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings

... promising fragments was a large, weary-looking person, with no lack of powdered shoulder above her pink bodice and a profusion of "undulated" hair of so decided a blond that it might have been suspected that the decision had lain ...

— His Own People • Booth Tarkington

... Lady Avonwier and Harietta Boleski undulated in the arms of the tall German who had come with the party from Broomgrove—but Amaryllis for the moment was absent from ...

— The Price of Things • Elinor Glyn

... the face—full upon the vivid, crimson lips—and a little of their crimson seemed to leave its lair. It trickled down upon the dead whiteness of her skin.... But she still smiled. Her white arms went forth languorously. Her lithe, slender, beautiful body undulated. Her eyes were on ...

— A Fool There Was • Porter Emerson Browne

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