sinewous

English

Etymology

sinew +‎ -ous

Adjective

sinewous (comparative more sinewous, superlative most sinewous)

(obsolete) sinewy
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
  he was small bellied and other lims more sinewous than fleshie

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