wavy

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hair
afro-textured
anti-dandruff
as bald as a cootphrase
baldness
bedhead
flyaway
fuzzy
kink
receding hairline
shaggy
soul patch
stubbly
tache
tash
textured
tousled
unkempt
wavy
wig
wiry

curly | American Dictionary

curly
adjective
us/ˈkɜr·li/
having a curving shape, like part of a circle,:
He should keep his curly hair short
I want those curly fries for lunch.

curliness

noun[ U ]us/ˈkɜr·li·nəs/

Examples of curly

curly
There are again several branches of solution, including the curly waves and the steepening sharp waves.
The leftmost attractor prefix is marked with a preceding curly brace in the examples below.
The standard curly bracket notation for sets is used to indicate set feature values.
Dynamic effects appear inside curly brackets, robust standard errors appear inside parentheses, and probability values appear inside brackets.
The symbol means intersection of the two sets identified within the curly brackets.
We use curly braces to indicate elements of definitions that are sets.
The term outside, multiplying the curly bracket, is also straightforward.
This is reminiscent of our encounter of a few curly in what had been thought to be true-breeding club stocks.
The club form appeared during inbreeding attempts to develop a true-breeding curly line.
It follows that the frequencies of the milder phenotypes, curly and normal, in these experiments are consistently higher in the males than in the females.
The concept that the curly wing phenotype represents a partial or intermediate stage towards wild-type has its counterpart in many other studies of suppressor genes.
Neither club nor the more crumpled forms of curly can fly, though the flightless forms can ' skip ' several centimetres at a time.
Various hair changes may occur, including dyspigmentation and the straightening of a normally curly hair; these signs however, are not specific.
Those with only one or a few modifiers appear as various degrees of the ' curly ' phenotype with a differential ability to fly.
The male progeny from similar crosses using curly females tend to be predominantly normal.
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